A little background before the play.
During WWII the Nazis engaged in horrific and despicable medical experiments on their Jewish prisoners, obviously without their consent. After the war the Nuremberg Code was created to prevent that from ever happening again.
Article 1 of the Nuremberg Code: The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential.
This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision. This latter element requires that before the acceptance of an affirmative decision by the experimental subject there should be made known to him the nature, duration, and purpose of the experiment; the method and means by which it is to be conducted; all inconveniences and hazards reasonably to be expected; and the effects upon his health or person which may possibly come from his participation in the experiment. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199711133372006
Now you may already know that after the war Operation Paperclip brought many Nazis to the US so what they learned could be gleaned by the US.
You may also know that the Nuremberg Code has been widely ignored by the US ever since. (Either click directly on the provided links or look up the following in Google: MK Ultra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment, or for a list of 13 – the U.S. Government has been caught conducting an insane amount of vile, inhumane, and grisly experiments on humans without their consent… and often without their knowledge. These are the thirteen most evil, creepy, disturbing cases of human-testing ever conducted by the United States of America. https://www.ranker.com/list/the-13-most-evil-u-s-government-experiments-on-humans/robert-wabash
Now, I am not confining my distrust of government to the other side of the pond, here in Australia we have our own dark history – and present! Fluoride and vaccinations are the two that come most readily to mind.
