A gross, illegal, and horrific reminder that non-white males (especially black men) are viewed as utterly disposable in the US capitalist system.

Yeah  - next time some white (usually female) tries to poke fun at how 'dorky'  they are, remind them of this most recent form of racial and primarily gender-based torture and murder.

https://scheerpost.com/2022/08/12/new-research-finds-cia-used-black-americans-as-drugs-experiment-guinea-pigs/

Just as CIA researchers devalued the lives of Black Americans and prison inmates, so to have academics ever since, even if unconsciously. Contemporarily, Strauss notes, scholars remain intensely uninterested in how non-White individuals respond to mental health treatments. She points to a recent study that found over 80% of participants in modern psychedelic research studies are non-Hispanic White.

“Psychedelic research, psychology and academia as a whole are still White-dominated fields. In 2015, over 85% of psychologists in the U.S. were White, and less than 5% were Black. A Black psychologist, Dr. Monnica Williams, was the first to investigate the research abuses and ethical violations in MKULTRA,” Strauss tells MintPress. “I think the real question is, why didn’t anybody else investigate these glaring research injustices?”

Even more shockingly, while the morality of scientists and medical professionals using inhumane and illegal Nazi research continues to be hotly debated, no such concerns are apparent in respect of the highly unethical and fundamentally racist MKULTRA studies examined by Strauss and her team; they continue to be cited as legitimate academic work today.

Strauss hopes their paper will trigger a wider debate about the ways in which research abuses have impacted and continue to impact people of color and how mental health research can become more socially responsible and culturally competent.

 

However, this part of the article I strenuously disagree with: 

More generally, there is clearly a pressing need for an official MKULTRA truth and reconciliation committee.

No. There needs to be criminal investigation into wrongdoing that was done. And the current institution known as the CIA  should be made accountable for its past crimes.

When time passes without justice for the victims, so too does any responsibility.