APA – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Human Experimentation for CIA Torture: Physicians for Human Rights Videos, Petition, Write to Obama

In connection with our last report, “Physicians for Human Rights to File Federal Complaint: On CIA-led Human Experimentation and Research to Design Torture Techniques Used against Detainees,” please consider signing a petition effort mounted by Physicians for Human Rights, “Office of Human Research Protections Complaint: Join Us in Demanding an Investigation into Evidence of Illegal […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Physicians for Human Rights to File Federal Complaint: On CIA-led Human Experimentation and Research to Design Torture Techniques Used against Detainees

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) this week released a shocking and damning report (Experiments in Torture) that implicates psychologists and medical practitioners in human experimentation, under CIA leadership, to calibrate and design torture techniques applied to detainees held by the U.S. as part of its so-called “war on terror.” This is illegal activity that violates […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

American psychologists against torture, write to Bush; American torture sites; documentaries online

APA LETTER TO BUSH: NEW POLICY LIMITS PSYCHOLOGIST INVOLVEMENT IN INTERROGATIONS Prohibits psychologist participation in interrogations at unlawful detention sites October 2, 2008 WASHINGTON-The American Psychological Association sent a letter today to President Bush, informing him of a significant change in the association’s policy that limits the roles of psychologists in certain unlawful detention settings […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

APA Votes to Ban Participation in Torture

Thanks very much to Deathpower for alerting me to this news. As discussed on previous occasions on this blog (see this post, and the previous one) along with a video featured in the video pod collection in the sidebar of this blog, the American Psychological Association (APA) has moved by ballot a resolution stating that, […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

NO TORTURE, NO COLLABORATION: Psychologists Rally Against Torture & U.S. War Crimes

As mentioned previously here, a movement is taking place in the American Psychological Association to ban participation by American psychologists in the torture of detainees held by the United States. Dr. Steven Reisner, who is a co-founder of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, spoke of the shocking kidnapping of children by the CIA, then […]