Outsourcing drug trials (dangerous or not) on human guinea pigs, against normal human ethics (Harvard Convention, etc.) protocols, in impoverished third world countries, alla 'The Constant Gardener', through third, fourth, or fifth party "handling", to create plausible deniability, in hack clinics, & WORSE, is standard operating procedure for first world pharma, despite their denials to the contrary, as evidenced by this posted article.

Additionally, the harvesting of human organs for transplants (CHINA REMAINS A MAJOR CULPRIT IN THEIR PENAL SYSTEM in the tens of thousands of framed prisoners being culled for human parts annually, & their remaining cadavers cremated to eliminate all evidence) is a thriving FOR PROFIT IN THE MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS PER YEAR business, internationally, and domestically, through many unregulated, or unpoliced distribution channels; despite US hospitals & medical associations denying this FACT.

China has ZERO ethics on this subject, & why behind closed doors right now, they are trying to bamboolze/bribe US government counterparts in trade talks, from banning economically adulterated food ingredients & food products flooding the US with POISON in them for humans, as well as pets.

Remember, modern western medicine began as a bunch of body snatchers in Renaissance Europe, & was revived, post Reformation in England, with the Royal College of Surgeons' origins, being that of bribing grave diggers for fresh bodies to dissect/conduct meat ball surgery on.

'STIFF' by Mary Roach, 'The American Way Of Death' by Jessica Midford, or 'Strange Harvest' by Lesley Sharp, are among many titles worth your consideration in these lines of inquiry.

Is it any real wonder western Big Pharma is caught in this posted article?  The answer is NO.  It's just another standard procedure in their bowel section of Hades.

Remind anyone of "The Constant Gardener"? It's a must-see film, adapted from a LeCarre novel, about this exact situation.  Of course, when the film came out, all of the pharmaceutical companies went out to the mainstream media claiming it was ridiculous.  Fictional horrors can hardly keep up with the real ones these days!

How low will they go?  Hooray for the courts in Nigeria, I hope the government does not say they do not have jurisdiction.  Of course their is always someone who has ultimate jurisdiction over everything.

Mary

The Nigerian government just dropped their suit.  I guess Pfizer won again.

Secret experiments on humans are nothing new. The government of the US has a long history of this. To avoid the expense of law suits they have taken their studies to the impoverished of other nations.
A good example of this happening here in the US is this article on FLOURIDE and the secret experiments done in New Jersey in 1945.

http://www.safe2use.com/government/floridation-abomb.htm