PrideInThisTeam Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/psychic-experiments-conducted-on-brandon-residential-school-kids-1.2898114 One Winnipegger said he was shocked to stumble on a report that shows experiments were conducted on children at Brandon's Indian Residential School in the 1940s. “This is incredible, especially when you take into account the other studies, medical tests that had been conducted at residential schools,” said Maeengan Linklater. Linklater was reading "Mysterious Manitoba" by Chris Rutkowski when he saw a passing reference to experiments on extra sensory perception, or ESP, on students at the school in 1941. The article was published in 1943 by a scientist named A.A Foster. A librarian friend found the actual scientific journal article and sent it to him. The study was trying to find a better way to test ESP using special cards. The author of the study said the 50 children that participated did so willingly.“It's not like these kids knew what they were participating in, because if these kids were starving already, a little bit of candy would go a long way,” said Linklater. He said the children weren't hurt in the experiment, which was conducted by a teacher named Miss D. Doyle, but were given candy and other favours if they participated. "There's no parental consent, there's no research studies that would have been ethical by our standards today, and these kids were exploited," Linklater said. Other articles Linklater read on the Brandon school including "Shingwauks Vision and A National Crime" described conditions there as deplorable, with malnourished children. "If you're starving and somebody says, 'You want to participate in this study, we're going to give you some candy.' You're three years old, you're from Norway House and you know, you're in this school. I mean what are you going to say?" Linklater said. Jamie Wilson with the Treaty Relations Commission of Manitoba developed the curriculum related to treaty relations currently in use by the province’s schools. It includes the impact residential schools left behind. “It highlighted not only do First Nations have a historic mistrust of education, but also a historic mistrust of research,” said Wilson. “And again, another example of why.” The article is just another example of what went on behind closed doors at the schools. In the 1940s and 50s, American scientists subjected malnourished children to nutritional experiments. Rather than getting food, kids were given vitamin supplements or even experimental flour. That information was discovered by expert Ian Mosby, a post-doctoral fellow at the L.R Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University. “The fact that researchers were given access to the children, that should give us pause to think what other researchers were given access to the students,” said Mosby. “The concern is: were there other experiments?” Mosby said it's the only study that he knows of that was conducted in residential schools in Manitoba, but he believes there were likely more harmful experiments done on vulnerable kids. Linklater said the fact the experiments occurred at all is an indication of the control administrators had over the students and how the children were dehumanized. "I don't mean to say this to inspire white guilt, I'm using this as a tool for change," Linklater said. Linklater said he hopes that the uncovering of the article can further shed light on the history of Indian Residential Schools; it may change someone's attitude, and contribute towards the dialogue on reconciliation. “If that happened today, how would we feel if those were our kids?” asked Wilson. “I think most of us would be pretty upset with that.” Interesting read. Just shows a way how things are different and how they were taken advantage of back in those days, would definitely be a no-go in the modern day, for the most part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonberries Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Disturbing. Thanks for posting this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nux4lyfe Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 #Illuminati Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 As a kid I was threatened with Brandon more than once. Didn't know what it was but knew I didn't want to go there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 As a kid I was threatened with Brandon more than once. Didn't know what it was but knew I didn't want to go there. You're first nations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KFBR392 Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Dear god that has to be worth at least $100,000,000,000 in restitution. Pay up, Canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drummer4now Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Dear god that has to be worth at least $100,000,000,000 in restitution. Pay up, Canada. Is this some joke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dral Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Is this some joke? Too soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:D Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I can see some of you, oh just so anxious to bleed heart on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lockout Casualty Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I can see some of you, oh just so anxious to bleed heart on this. None as anxious as you are to post yet another one-liner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 This wasn't an 'experiment', it was research. Article tries to make it seem as if Aboriginal children were given some form of 'treatment/experimental effect'. It was just a simple card test (read the original article in the link). In terms of all the things that have happened to Aboriginal children in the early 1900s, this is probably one of the most mundane. Unethical? Absolutely. At the same time, there are far more egregious things happening to Aboriginal children in Canada today that we could be focusing on, instead of giving Linklater unnecessary and ultimately unhelpful attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 I can see some of you, oh just so anxious to bleed heart on this. Lol. If this were a story about research on dogs, you'd be asking for the researchers to get the electric chair. Hypocrite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amish Rake Fighter Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 This wasn't an 'experiment', it was research. Article tries to make it seem as if Aboriginal children were given some form of 'treatment/experimental effect'. It was just a simple card test (read the original article in the link). In terms of all the things that have happened to Aboriginal children in the early 1900s, this is probably one of the most mundane. Unethical? Absolutely. At the same time, there are far more egregious things happening to Aboriginal children in Canada today that we could be focusing on, instead of giving Linklater unnecessary and ultimately unhelpful attention. it's pretty minor in the grand scheme of things, given Canada's history of human experimentation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Ewen_Cameron With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, money from John Wilson McConnell of the Montreal Star, and a gift of Sir Hugh Allan's mansion on Mount Royal, the Allan Memorial Institute for psychiatry was founded. Cameron recruited psychoanalysts, social psychiatrists and biologists globally to develop the psychiatry program at McGill.As in Manitoba, he developed a network of psychiatric services for Montreal. ..... He commuted from Albany to Montreal every week to work at McGill's Allan Memorial Institute and was paid $69,000 from 1957 to 1964 to carry out MKUltra experiments there. In addition to LSD, he experimented with various paralytic drugs and electroconvulsive therapy at thirty to forty times the normal power.[citation needed] His "driving" experiments consisted of putting a subject into a drug-induced coma for weeks at a time (up to three months in one case) while playing tape loops of noise or simple statements. These experiments were typically carried out on patients who had entered the institute for minor problems such as anxiety disorders and postpartum depression; many suffered permanent debilitation after these treatments.[17] Such consequences includedincontinence, amnesia, forgetting how to talk, forgetting their parents, and thinking their interrogators were their parents.[18] His work was inspired and paralleled by the British psychiatrist William Sargant, who was also involved in the Intelligence Services and experimented extensively on his patients without their consent, causing similar long-term damage.[19] ...... Naomi Klein states in her book The Shock Doctrine that Cameron's research and his contribution to MKUltra were not about mind control and brainwashing, but "to design a scientifically based system for extracting information from 'resistant sources.' In other words, torture."[21] She then citesAlfred W. McCoy: "Stripped of its bizarre excesses, Cameron's experiments, building upon Donald O. Hebb's earlier breakthrough, laid the scientific foundation for the CIA's two-stage psychological torture method."[22] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdatb Posted January 13, 2015 Share Posted January 13, 2015 Facilitated Communication.mov: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobble Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 I just think of the scene from Ghostbusters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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