WHY SHOULD YOU BE WORRIED ABOUT IT?
For 100 years, the government and corporations have been testing poisons, drugs, diseases, weapons, and torture methods on people. They have dosed us with everything from LSD to nerve gas. They have infected us with syphilis, addicted us to heroin, fed us bug spray, and beaten us into unconsciousness. Most of this they have done in secret, without our consent.
The history of unethical human experimentation stretches back centuries, and includes countries around the world. For hundreds of years, people have been injected with diseases, covered in leeches, bled, amputated, and exorcised.
Things like this are rarely done anymore, but why? Is it because governments and corporations realized what they were doing was wrong? Did the factors that motivated these tests disappear? Or is it because they started to worry they’d be caught? MKULTRA ended because media scrutiny of the CIA meant discovery was inevitable.
Today, just as in the Cold War, the government is afraid. Terrorists hide in every shadow. Corporations with global reach have discovered that financial clout brings with it a measure of invulnerability from consequence. Competition for every dollar is more fierce now than ever before.
Confronted with the threat of terrorists, what shenanigans might the government get up to in secret? Given the possibility of making an extra $100 billion, what might a corporation be willing to do?