Informed Consent Quotes

• Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

  Frank Oski

  Medicine, Feeding, Lasting

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  No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Witty, Men

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• Informed consent is required for every invasive medical procedure, from getting your ears pierced to having an abortion.

  Bob McDonnell

  Abortion, Ears, Medical

  "McDonnell Talks Super Tuesday". Interview with Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. March 5, 2012.

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• When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed consent question was answerable.

  Jock Sturges

  Years, Doubt, Years Ago

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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• So the system we have in radio and television today is the direct result of government policies that have been made in our name, in the name of the people, on our behalf, but without our informed consent.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Names, Government, People

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• Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Issues, Secret

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 246), 1977.

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• Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

  Frank Herbert

  Adventure, Population, Doe

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.221, Macmillan

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• No foreign policy can be sustained in the United States of America without the informed consent of the American people. And informed means just that, successes and failure, a realistic assessment of where we are and what the president plans to do about it.

  Joe Biden

  Mean, Assessment, America

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• Nuclear weapons production and testing has involved extensive health and environmental damage .... One of the most remarkable features of this damage has been the readiness of governments to harm the very people that they claimed they were protecting by building these weapons for national security reasons. In general, this harm was inflicted on people in disregard of democratic norms. Secrecy, fabrication of data, cover-ups in the face of attempted public inquiry, and even human experiments without informed consent have all occurred in nuclear weapons production and testing programs.

  Arjun Makhijani

  Government, Data, People

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