Today’s Independent, like most other papers, carries two stories side by side with their origins in the 1970’s. The first concerns the testing of haemophiliac blood products on 4500 suffers, the second the removal of body parts from 70 former Sellafield employees. The haemophiliac story is particularly distressing with the claim that the testing of clotting agents led to 2500 deaths. Sellafield’s issues lie in claims that coroners allowed bones, tissues and organs to be removed without family consent.
I have flagged these two stories as they been excused on the grounds that we are once again judging the past by applying today’s standards to the facts. Clearly, this is not the case. The testing of clotting agents is clouded by a series of crucial documents which have “mysteriously disappeared”. One such item was a letter warning about the risk of Aids via contaminated samples from the USA. The GMB Union, representing families and relatives of the workers from Sellafield, have also showed that vital documents i.e. consent forms, are either missing or never in fact existed.
In earlier post’s I have decried the practise of judging the past by today’s standards, but these two instances are tainted with the smell of “cover up”. As such, the truth needs to be told!
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