Vera Sharav: "I came to Nuremberg to provide historical context to the current global threat confronting our civilization"

A good time to snap out of slumber and listen?

I want to share a poignant talk by Vera Sharav, whom I’ve had the joy to meet, and she is just such a vibrant, sunny soul. I admire her deeply.

Vera, the founder of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, has been a fierce, very effective and highly respected medical ethics advocate for a very long time, and she has accomplished a lot. The world is a better place thanks to her courage and passion:

Her advocacy achievements include: suspension of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pesticide experiment (CHEERS) on children; complaint led to two federal investigations on the use of children in foster care as guinea pigs in experimental AIDS drug and vaccine trials; suspension of smallpox vaccine on children; suspension of “violence prediction” experiment that exposed 6–11 year old NYC boys of color to fenfluramine ; opened a public debate about the ethics of relapse-inducing experiments in schizophrenia patients. Organized families and victims of unethical research to join her in …