Scientist 'killed Amazon indians to test race theory'

[KamaAina]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/sep/23/paulbrown

Thousands of South American indians were infected with measles, killing hundreds, in order to for US scientists to study the effects on primitive societies of natural selection, according to a book out next month.

The astonishing story of genetic research on humans, which took 10 years to uncover, is likely to shake the world of anthropology to its core, according to Professor Terry Turner of Cornell University, who has read the proofs.

"In its scale, ramifications, and sheer criminality and corruption it is unparalleled in the history of anthropology," Prof Turner says in a warning letter to Louise Lamphere, the president of the American Anthropology Association (AAA).

The book accuses James Neel, the geneticist who headed a long-term project to study the Yanomami people of Venezuela in the mid-60s, of using a virulent measles vaccine to spark off an epidemic which killed hundreds and probably thousands.

[sharp_stick]

1. That book has been pretty much

torn apart.

Patrick Tierney hasn't tried too hard to back it up either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_in_El_Dorado

[geek tragedy]

2. the book was found to be a deliberate fraud, fabricating evidence etc nt

[KamaAina]

3. Somebody better tell The Guardian, then.

[geek tragedy]

4. Note the date on your article.

[HuckleB]

6. I think the Guardian knows, that article's almost 15 years old.

[cali]

5. the guardian story is 15 years old. n/t