Mass Grave of Dead Babies in Ireland Used as Guinea Pigs for Pharmaceutical Company

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

48. Given the time frame, however, this story is entirely plausible

In 1930, there were little to no protections for test subjects in clinical studies. It wasn't until after World War II and the Nuremberg Trials that international standards were established. The U.S. Public Health Service didn't have a standard for taxpayer-funded medical research until the early 1960's.

The era of this story would have been the same as the Tuskegee Experiments in the U.S., where black farmers were infected with syphilis, and were not provided with treatment even after penicillin was discovered as a treatment. And the study continued until 1972 -- nearly 25 years after the Nuremberg Trials and a decade after the PHS set standards forbidding that kind of research.

So just because it's the Daily Mail doesn't mean that it didn't happen. I'd like to see more independent documentation, mind you, but I've got an awful feeling that this was probably the case.