Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years

Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @12:24PM (#6251413)

> scientific studies that border on eugenics

I don't understand what kind of experiment that could be, unless they're forcing specific couples to have children.

Are you sure you're using the word eugenics right? You're not just trying to say 'nazi' without using the word 'nazi', surely?

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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by tbrownaw on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:15PM (#6251808)

The first thing that came to mind is this (which turns out to have actually been on the general population, rather than on the military like I thought I remembered): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

It seems perfectly reasonable to call that "[a] scientific stud[y] that border[s] on eugenics".

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Re:Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years by Dylan16807 on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @01:44PM (#6252056)

I don't see any connection between investigating the symptoms of a disease and... oh wait are you saying that the 'eugenics' would be the army performing such experiments only on certain racial/whatever groups of army grunts, and not on the general population of army grunts?

I don't really buy it. I think the army would want test data for all races. Contaminated agent orange for people of all colors.

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