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PHR's report shows health professionals weren't just complicit in torture, they also participated in research and experimentation on detainees in US custody. In other words, human beings were (and still are being) used as guinea pigs. Public documents prove it, including memoranda from the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) and the CIA's Office of Inspector General Special Review of the Agency's Enhanced Interrogation Program.
Relevant Laws Governing Research and Experimentation, Using Human Subjects
US 45 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 46.1029d (2005) defines research to mean:
"....a systematic investigation, including research development, testing and evaluation, designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge. Activities which meet this definition constitute research for purposes of this policy, whether or not they are conducted or supported under a program which is considered research for other purposes."
The same regulation defines human subject research as:
using "a living individual about whom an investigator (whether professional or student) conducting research obtains:
1. data through intervention or interaction with the individual, or
2. identifiable private information."
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