Inside The Worst Vaccine Study in US History | Science Documentary

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[@empressmarowynn]

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that dude gave hepatitis laden shit shakes to disabled children. Like that's a combination I never thought I would put into one sentence.

[@davemccage7918]

RFK Jr. was right all along… Go figure!

[@jermhigh3269]

Just goes to show how cruel Humans can be to each other...

[@InservioLetum]

@@jermhigh3269 yet here you are capitalising human.

[@imchris5000]

ny still uses orphans for drug testing to this day

[@OfftheWallTales]

As soon as I heard Willowbrook, my stomach dropped. I’m from NY and took care of more than one elderly person who went there. I worked in community houses that would have 4-5 individuals with varying intellectual or developmental disabilities. One house specifically had a man who was in Willowbrook and then other old school asylums until his 50s. His mind had never moved past that of a ten year old, one who had experienced SA, not to mention physical and verbal too. But the issue was he was in his 70s and while his mind was that of a child, his body wasn’t. So he was an actual risk to children. He’d never done anything but given the chance, might have. But we had signed a form with the state police that we would watch him 24/7 and that man was never out of sight. Even at night the house had alarms on all the doors, but he never tried to escape. He felt safe. It was just if there was an open house or family came to visit someone, he would get a bit TOO close to the kids so it was one of the few houses we had two people stationed at. Poor guy didn’t choose to be intellectually disabled due to abuse to the point his mind stopped developing. It was pure trauma. Just the issue was it could be more trauma for others… but he’d never actually done anything. He’s passed now but I always felt so conflicted over him.

[@clairenollet2389]

I was also an aide at a group home with an old man from Willowbrook. I wrote about him above. Heartbreaking.

[@Dexy83]

Hell, this isn't the only horrible thing they did at Willowbrook!

[@Cankersaurus]

Not even close.

[@JosieJOK]

Many of the clients that I work with are parties to the Willowbrook settlement. Just to say that there are many still alive who suffered horrors at Willowbrook School.

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

Glad you were there to tell us the tale

[@OffendingTheOffendable]

​@@JosieJOK lies

[@henryturnerjr3857]

They also created Geraldo! 😜

[@patrickcerio8892]

At 4:38, I think you swapped the two experiments you mentioned: the Tuskegee study was of syphilis, and the Stateville study was of malaria, but you have that reversed ("These dealt with malaria and syphilis, respectively"). I hope I don't come across as critical; I don't comment much in general, but I always enjoy your videos. Thanks for continuing to make these!

[@EShirako]

Yeah, can confirm that it is backwards. So 'retrospectively', not 'respectively'? :) But anyway!

[@1xivix]

I worked with some of these people in the early 2000's. After they had been moved to northern New York ARC's.They were all very wonderful souls. Many had emotional and behavioral scars they stilled carried with them. They were all treated poorly at the time in their lives, but the organization i was part of did our best to treat them with respect and make their lives better.

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

Thank you for your compassion.

[@GooseWaffe]

Glad to see you’re revisiting the old dark side of science series

[@DaleDix]

The new dark side is out of bounds 😂😂

[@ricardokowalski1579]

do not -eat the yellow snow -drink the kool aid -have the chocolate shake

[@SubPablum]

-go into the light

[@TheThora17]

-look into my eyes

[@cris_261]

-cross the beams

[@BennyLlama39]

-say "I'll be right back." Because you won't. 😀

[@we.r.wine.bottles.im.at.work.]

Fry bacon with your shirt off

[@texasdarkskies]

I’ve missed your dark side of science videos! Thanks for bringing it back! 😊

[@MsJaytee1975]

If anyone is interested in what Willowbrook was like, in 1975 Geraldo Rivera (yeah that Geraldo) broke into/was given a key to Willowbrook and took a news team in with him. The reports he did are on You Tube. I would caution anyone who intends to watch that it’s absolutely harrowing, I’ve watched some of it, but can’t get through the whole thing.

[@robertmoffett3486]

That whole Geraldo circus was a disgrace. Yes, the publicity was helpful, but the whole " breaking in " thing was a scam. The campus was open to the public. The gates were wide open 24/7, 365 days a year. Virtually every Staten Islander knew all about Willowbrook for ages before Geraldo did

[@TheThora17]

No kidding eh? Wow smh

[@jimonthecoast3234]

I've seen the video on his website.. truely saddening and shows autism has been with us a long time.. so sad how people were disposed of there..

[@southwestxnorthwest]

​@@jimonthecoast3234Geraldo had autism?

[@maryseflore7028]

@@southwestxnorthwest No. Some of the patients Geraldo saw and met had autism. Reading comprehension...

[@scarpfish]

Well, this comments section should get interesting considering the subject matter. 😬

[@TonyLambregts]

That's a pretty safe bet.

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

My first thoughts exactly! Beware the comments, for they are dark and full of terrors.

[@DogmaticAtheist]

Opinions are like arseholes

[@chasemiller3712]

Pro-Milkshake vs Anti-Milkshake

[@djmoch1001]

@@DogmaticAtheist Some are full of shit. :P

[@robertmoffett3486]

It was common knowledge among Staten Islanders that Willowbrook was a hell hole, all along. Most knew people who worked there. It seemed like people were just resigned to the idea that the state, and "science" , could do what they wished. Tradition, and wartime emergency measures made people very obedient to authoritarianism

[@Zodroo_Tint]

Recent history shows it doesn't have to be wartime emergency, obedience to authoritarianism seems to be part of many people's personality no matter the time.

[@nerdygoth6905]

I know there are different strains of hepatitis but I hadn't realised there are so many ways to be infected

[@mattgayda2840]

There's a easy way to remember them but it would get deleted if I typed it here... Let's see... A is for azz, B is for blood and banging , C is for crack hoooo, D is for didn't get treatment, E is for eating pooooo

[@clairenollet2389]

Willowbrook was a cesspit of abuse. I had a second job many years ago as an aide at a group home for developmentally delayed people. There was an old man there with cerebral palsy, with spastic limbs and mental delay. He was a really sweet guy until bath time every night. It took three aides to bathe him. We'd wheel him in in a lift sling to the bathroom, and as soon as he saw the shower, he'd begin to scream in terror. What should have been a lovely warm shower was a nightmare for him. They had punished him for "misbehavior" at Willowbrook by turning the hose on him in the bathroom when he was a child. He was tortured so often, he had PTSD. He would shriek and weep during the showering process, no matter how gentle we were. After we'd get him dried off, with a fresh diaper, and tucked him into his sheepskin sleeping hammock, he was happy as a clam. It broke my heart to see him be so terrified of what should have been a lovely warm shower.

[@MinnaMe01]

Thanks for another interesting video! Don’t know if you’ve done a video on the Vipeholm experiment yet, but I’d recommend it. It was an experiment on the dental effects of sugar done in a Swedish mental institution

[@staffanalinder1592]

And the patients at Vipeholm were from distant parts in Sweden so no relatives should visit them. The head of the institution thought that whenever a patient died it was a win since they were just a burden for society.

[@TheThora17]

Omg

[@ConstantlyDamaged]

Because medical research looked at the nightmare studies behavioral scientists were undertaking and said, "Hold my beer."

[@mbryson2899]

That was my thought as well.

[@poggs]

I'm loving the new "large surface, zoom in" graphics!

[@mjrippe]

I respectfully disagree. The constant motion is distracting to me. I prefer still photos with John's soothing voice.

[@thebirdee55]

I'm sorry, but I am not. I get motion sickness very easily and it's killing me.

[@abandoninplace2751]

i guess some ppl like a slightly Broccoli-esque style, and some ppl don't.

[@OneVerySadPanda]

You get motion sickness very easily? Bro… alt+f4 out of youtube. Sheesh.

[@Bruh-ne2zx]

@@OneVerySadPandayou’re profile picture takes away whatever retarded opinion you have

[@nealrasmussen4832]

Not only are your posts fascinating enough to watch clear through, but we also have to find out the weather in southern London! Clever. 🤓

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

I always need the southern London weather report! (It is unsurprisingly cold here just outside Toronto.)

[@cris_261]

@@nealrasmussen4832 Got to watch to the end to get our Southern London weather report. Meanwhile, it's low 20s (F) in Northern Utah.

[@rogercroft3218]

“State Department for Mental Hygiene”. Now there’s an organisation name that could have come out of a horror story.

[@ComicMelon]

That sounds like something straight out of Wolfenstein 😂

[@OfftheWallTales]

12:30 i think you might be confusing visits. RFK visited in 1965 and did say that. Geraldo Rivera went in 1972 with a TV crew and showed it. Maybe RFK recorded it but I really don’t think so. I know what shocked the US, and still does to this day, is the recording Rivera released.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

It's John's accent. It sounded like he said 1975 but when I listened again, he said 1965.

[@manuelh.4147]

Little known fact: The chocolate milkshake tasted like Hershey's.

[@hotlavatube]

"Tastes a bit nutty..." -- Austin Powers

[@TerminusVox]

Wow, ewetoob auto-dropped your channel subscription for me... not that I wanted that... Glad to be here!

[@thomasostrander4835]

I'm glad I read your comment, because I've been subscribed (and regularly watching) for a couple of years, and yet KZbin apparently decided to unsubscribe me too!

[@DreadJesterBatthink]

Of all the times I felt milkshakes only had the charges of tasting a bit too sugary and having a bit too much fat involved, I now have a new reason to add against all the positives I get drinking one. I need this video to remind me to make my own milkshakes.

[@ilmuoui]

Average House MD episode

[@GearGuardianGaming]

no, the meds house prescribes actually work.

[@basztiancooper]

@@GearGuardianGaming only on the third attempt most of the time

[@GearGuardianGaming]

@@basztiancooper no, the meds work. if they didnt, then the patients would stay the same, instead of getting way worse.

[@basztiancooper]

@@GearGuardianGaming hmm true,yes they work ... just in the wrong direction .

[@nvelsen1975]

It wasn't Lupus though...

[@AnUndeadMonkey]

Man there is just no good story coming out of Willowbrook eh

[@MsJaytee1975]

I thought I knew how bad it was, but this is something I hadn’t heard of.

[@dustinharris8057]

We appreciate your videos always interesting

[@PlainlyDifficult]

I appreciate that

[@SkyeFergus]

Great video as always! Many of the American asylums were like this unfortunately. Im sure someone else has suggested this- but The Residencial schools of both the United States and Canada would be a good video for this series! People dont know enough about them. There was one not far from my hometown, the buildings on the inside looked more like barns than any boarding school Ive ever seen.

[@mekanic5]

I imagine some business major is watching this and saying, "Hold my beer."

[@milky__1748]

My milkshake was slurpt with a giant straw that crossed all acrooooooooooos the room 😢

[@BrandanTheBroker]

If you think what they did in Willowbrook was terrible, Canadian Resident Schools told them to hold their beer 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@mysticalmikeday]

Many such cases of one-way field trips in Canada at them schools!

[@GonzoIsCool]

The USSR had radioactive cleanup field trips for elementary school students. People are so evil to children.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

​@@GonzoIsCoollose the bullshit.

[@alanhelton]

Morning everyone from Cold Clamy Southern London to Timbuktu. This wish sincerely goes out to all of you.

[@marklee2412]

Hello kind sir from sunny Northern California

[@paulbloomanalogue]

This is so upsetting 😢

[@Csapi007]

Like the transitions!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Thank you

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Now my Saturday is 10X better ❤

[@kateemma22]

‘He made them drunk sh!t milkshakes’ not being the worst thing in this story is truly disturbing.

[@mikehipps1015]

20 more YEARS?! What is wrong with us?

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Our leadership, our votership, everything actually.

[@3rdworldgarage450]

Look at Tuskegee. They had a cure but kept it from the men they infected because Science!

[@thing_under_the_stairs]

@@gustavgnoettgen Don't forget the education system!

[@jrmckim]

This is one of the worst things I've ever heard about. Breaks my heart for the kids and their families. Thank you for bringing it to light.

[@lauxmyth]

Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment competes for me.

[@Verbindungs]

​@@lauxmythcovid m-rna beats them all

[@ComicMelon]

@@Verbindungs Explain how

[@Zodroo_Tint]

@@ComicMelon Millions died, billions of money were made and a new total social control system was tested.

[@ComicMelon]

@@Zodroo_Tint Are you trolling or actually drowning in that much koolaid?

[@RCAvhstape]

"In this household we trust the science."

[@sgt.eclair]

This was a really poor choice of title and thumbnail. It's just going to bring all of the antivaxxers out of the woodwork.

[@PauperJ]

0:56 "Far from ethical" - listed at the top of our favorite Safety Director's (7:56) Curriculum Vitae.

[@h-leath6339]

System does not allow for me to mash like button hard enough. Looking forward to your end of year extravaganza. Thank you for your work. Video production is a bit of a shlep and I really appreciate your dedication to accuracy and output. Thank you Mr. Difficult. ...Thifficult...

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Much appreciated!

[@jimonthecoast3234]

Gerardo Riveria has a very extensive video on his website.. he did an expose' in the 70's and helped get this atrocity shut down

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

Trust Level Scale: Drops a few more notchs.

[@Orygunner67]

What a way to start my day. Thanks John. 🤨😉

[@christopherhinkel8274]

This video possibly would have failed KZbin guidelines two years ago.

[@HandyMan657]

Hehehe, the comments are sure to be interesting on this one. Good choice. Take care, PD. Keep safe

[@DaleDix]

Better than the video

[@m1t2a1]

And people call Canada bad for being the reason behind so many Geneva Conventions.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Vhut?

[@Nastyswimmer]

A grammatical point - several viruses cause hepatitis. Each on its own will cause hepatitis. Hepatitis is caused by an individual virus, not by multiple viruses.

[@robertkirchner7981]

How about "Hepatitis can be caused by any one of several viruses"?

[@frugalbirders7416]

Several viruses DO cause viral hepatitis. There are a handful of known forms of viral hepatitis. Hepatitis A (HAV), Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV), and so on. There is a D and E, and likely more will be identified over time. They are all caused by a specific, different virus. They are all transmitted by sharing body fluids. This video talked about Hepatitis A which is classically transmitted through the fecal-oral route. Yes, you eat some microscopic poop or pee after someone with poor toilet hand hygiene gets it into your mouth by touching something that you touch, then you touch your mouth, or by them touching your food directly. Commonly spread in schools, restaurants, and dormitories. Generally doesn’t kill. Generally gives life-long immunity to HAV. The fact that the kids got hepatitis more than once was the clue that there were two different hepatitises, the second eventually being identified as Hepatitis B, which is caused by a different virus than Hepatitis A.

[@JohnnyAngel8]

Anything that inflames the liver is technically "hepatitis". Viral hepatitis strains can be A, B, C, D, or E. Other viruses that can cause it are CMV, EBV, and HSV.

[@timhinchcliffe5372]

John missed the glass pouring in the milkshake... I'd hate to see what his toilet looks like.

[@a62dave]

I don’t like the rotating graphics. 😵‍💫🤢

[@Skullair313]

09:06 I REALLY hope, this was chocolate ice cream 😂

[@menwithven8114]

What is this?!?! So excited brother keep em coming!

[@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan]

Willowbrooks was always run by moustache twirling bad guys then!!!

[@PlainlyDifficult]

Very likely

[@TweeterAndTheMunkyMan]

@PlainlyDifficult Could you imagine being involved in the decision making when giving a project like that the green light?!? Scary just thinking about it!

[@chrisj1475]

This disgusts me. Just because you can and are able to do it doesn't mean you should do it. As far as I'm aware, these people never face punishment.

[@prettypuff1]

7:18: wild experimental design 9:48: EVEN WILDER EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN 😮 10:24: This us why v we have informed content

[@tiagobuarki]

I am a fan of your work, John.

[@davemccage7918]

I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!!!!!! (If you know, you know)

[@kongrufus1]

DRRRAAAIIIINIIIINNGG!!!

[@TheFinalFrontiersman]

The worst part about stories like this is how much later they ovcurred than I ever expect

[@thefleta2900]

Did you ever make an episode about the Vipeholm experiment in Sweden? This really reminds me of that, with the disabled children. It's an experiment where they forced institutionalised people to eat sticky toffee to see if suggar cause tooth decay. It was done in a time where it was very well understood that sweets cause teeth to rott.

[@meatharbor]

Should probably cover Tuskegee at some point, also. Good to see it at least got a mention, though.

[@ManMountainMetals]

LIKE THE VIDEO HE DID THREE YEARS AGO ON TUSKEGEE????

[@meatharbor]

@@ManMountainMetals God damn it, I knew I should have looked further back. I had a feeling he already did one but I only checked around the past two years 'cause I didn't feel like digging through his entire video history. I appreciate the heads-up, though.

[@ManMountainMetals]

@@meatharbor 😆 🤣 I think 🤔 I searched' plainly difficult tuskegee ' to find it. I used to live in Notasulga which is close by. My brother still lives in the area and even did some renovations at the airport 🛫 there.

[@JadeLockpicker]

Once upon a time I had some faith in humanity. I don't know what I have now, but it certainly isn't that. Dear gods.

[@MMSMLUNWINPP]

Always love seeing all the supporters and subscribers you have. You absolutely earned and deserve every single one of them. Cheers Mate! Wish I could give you more a month than I do, but what I csn contribute i know is 100% worth it.

[@whofandb]

I looked up the drs on Wiki. The records say they made great strides in understanding Hepatitis and gloss over their abuse of the people in the Hepatitis "study." They should have apologized to each any every kid they infected or their families if they had died.

[@abdelali9279]

The forbidden choccy milk.

[@paulsillanpaa8268]

Got to love those chilling qualifiers: The most unethical medical experiments…performed on children…in the United States.

[@lonnyyoung4285]

I'm glad I am an untrustworthy person who doesn't like milk shakes, particularly chocolate ones.

[@MrsDetroit622]

Absolutely disgusting

[@RobKaiser_SQuest]

1:25 the "on children" is carrying a *lot* of weight when you know what other kinds of testing the US has done on certain demographics of its citizens. Also RE all the comments, if you build water, horses will come and refuse to drink.

[@MsJaytee1975]

Are you suggesting it’s acceptable to test vaccines on disabled children?

[@SeanHartnett-t8c]

@@MsJaytee1975 he could be trying to say, it was done on the poor as well, non white and others.

[@realvanman1]

One thing you can be sure of- human beings haven’t become any less unscrupulous since then.

[@16jan1986]

You killed milkshakes for me

[@-Katastrophe]

This is the second most unethical experiment ever conducted on children in the US, the first involved a man named John whose last name was Money.

[@haxie4516]

He did abhorrent things, but fortunately, he disproved what he set out to prove, and as a result, people today have a far better understanding of gender 😊

[@johnnaughton2364]

Great, can't drink milkshakes anymore...

[@beautifulblackbeauty8641]

Explain the rating system and bingo 😢card! I’ll keep repeating this request, along with, make the handwriting legible and do not flash the cards so quickly. I’ve been watching for years and have NEVER heard you explain these 2 final aspects to each program. 2:56

[@4dxl]

Seconded! I'd like an explanation please

[@cjhearn]

Does the bingo card really needs an explanation? It's just common causes of disasters that get ticked off, first seen here kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqa1lot9e9hphdE. The rating system was explained in the next episode when v3 was first introduced: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXfMgYuKl8ybarMsi=FqgCJffivNpP2PzH&t=905 (it's had a very slight tweak since).

[@jamessimms415]

Make the writing darker or lines more thick.

[@ladymctavish3299]

The pseudo scientists in the comments are sure to have some silly things to say.

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Them too.

[@Chichimee]

Or, maybe those people just trust themselves enough to do their own genuine research into the topic and don’t take the media conglomerate’s word blindly. And they don’t care about cowardly online bullies like you who just tow the mainstream line.

[@serisothikos]

@@Chichimee tHeIr oWn gEnUiNe rEsEaRcH and it's "toe" the line

[@googlelovesdoxxing7981]

Literally top comment rn be like:

[@cris_261]

​@Chichimee going a bit far with the bully accusation, eh?

[@Aieieo]

1:30 that’s a lot of qualifiers

[@sujimtangerines]

I don't like milkshakes; you may not trust me, but I'll live.

[@MarianneKat]

Ethical care, wish it hadn't taken so long to get here. Vaccines save lives.

[@jennycox4463]

I can kind of understand the rationale behind the experiment, provided INFORMED AND UNCOERCED consent was obtained and proper care was given.

[@battleangel5595]

Just binned my chocolate protein powder. And have my upchuck-it bucket handy.

[@annisrodoria4951]

My since high school teacher told me about this and reason why I stopped drinking chocolate milk after that for a while I don't drink much of it like I use to

[@vickslab4608]

Tuskegee Syphilis Study, the Milgram Experiment, the Stanford Prison Experiment, Project MKUltra

[@BlueSmokie]

Guess I can't be trusted. 🤷🏿‍♀️

[@notmuch_23]

Wow, this involves _literal_ shit smoothies... ...just adds to how fucked up this is...

[@scallopohare9431]

What is it with Staten Island?

[@rf159a]

Just threw my Hershey's Syrup out!!

[@ComicMelon]

Comments here are wildin, who invited the conspiracy lads? Usually it's a fairly logical bunch, but there's some weirdos lurking now...

[@eriklaroi8]

Haven’t seen the video yet but that thumbnail is playing with fire.

[@ultraviolet9863]

so many things to comment here that would get deleted.

[@benjaminallen3595]

oh man not the doodoo milk shake! this is awful :(

[@melodious-thunk]

i like the new visual style. the old one worked too tho.

[@CarlosRios1]

There is another

[@shroomyk]

If milkshakes are typically made in a blender, why are they called "shakes"? One for the philosophers.

[@NinoJoel]

The Sims 2 for DS was a video game of my childhood. You could go to a cow and push it till it falls over. If you milk it afterwards you'd get a milk shake 😂

[@georgejones3526]

“The history of the electric blender, malted milk drinks, and milkshakes are interconnected. Before the widespread availability of electric blenders, milkshake-type drinks were more like eggnog, or they were a hand-shaken mixture of crushed ice and milk, sugar, and flavorings.” From Wikipedia.

[@rockets4kids]

next up: why do they bring all the boys to the yard?

[@tin2001]

Before blenders, they were literally shaken. Today you can buy modern plastic shaker cups with a fitting in the lid that's designed to blend the contents as it moves through. Obviously it can't chop things up, but it will distribute flavourings, soft icecream, etc throughout the milk better than stirring or shaking without the special fitting. One advantage of these cups is not requiring electricity, and another advantage is they're 100% dishwasher safe, unlike many blender parts that need hand washing

[@bluejedi723]

Milkshakes. Just as I was eating breakfast.

[@richardrae5049]

This sort of story could go so much deeper🤔

[@GearGuardianGaming]

and cover many many more years.

[@neilkurzman4907]

Yes, it could go much deeper. It could go into conspiracy theories. And then the deep conspiracy theories.

[@ZiggyVB]

Perfect timing

[@SodapopTheOutsider]

Apple pies from Costco are gross!

[@savvybear11781]

chocolate poop shakes to children is not ethical, its child abuse.

[@samsonsoturian6013]

Unethical is a term reserved for legle actions we want to pretend are illegal

[@henryturnerjr3857]

Hey, someone used the V word and didn't get the thingy under the video. That's refreshing!

[@vicrigg9390]

The Nuremberg Code, we learned what from the past.

[@John_Redcorn_]

Theyd never do a thing like this today 🤔👀