Featured Articles:
Teenager Jesse Gelsinger died in September, 1999 in a gene therapy experiment at the University of Pennsylvania. His father describes what happened, and why we all should be disturbed. Read all about it in Jesse's Intent.
Guinea Pig Zero editor Bob Helms on The Medical Manslaughter of Jesse Gelsinger.
A Guinea Pig Zero web exclusive: Ever wonder what it's like to do a really looooong drug study? Subject #1J gives the 411 on the food, the boredom, and the cash in 22 Nights and 23 Days!
A Guinea Pig Zero web exclusive: What really happens when you answer an ad for volunteer testing at a psych lab? Read Mikita Brottman's humorous and insightful "I Was a Brain Slave" for the inside scoop!
Is it practical for human guinea pigs to unionize their labor? There's much that stands in the way of this happening, but collective action is still possible! Read two views of a drug study in Philadelphia where successful collective action happened -- Robert Helms on Human Guinea Pigs "Band Together" and Win a Pay Hike and Dave Onion on Human Guinea Pigs Organize and Win.
What makes an experiment an experiment? Read editor Bob Helms' interesting take on the bombing of Guernica, the Allied raid on the French town of Dieppe, and the tragic death of 19-year old University of Rochester student Nicole Wan.
A Guinea Pig Zero web exclusive: Sabina Tigges on the first successful (?) hand transplant recipient -- read Clint Hallam: Guinea Pig Takes the Reins.
Looking for Robert Helms' essay on "Anarchists in Medicine and Pharmacy"? It's moved to the Deadanarchists.org website!
Guinea Pig Zero editor Bob Helms on The Medical Manslaughter of Jesse Gelsinger.
A Guinea Pig Zero web exclusive: Ever wonder what it's like to do a really looooong drug study? Subject #1J gives the 411 on the food, the boredom, and the cash in 22 Nights and 23 Days!
A Guinea Pig Zero web exclusive: What really happens when you answer an ad for volunteer testing at a psych lab? Read Mikita Brottman's humorous and insightful "I Was a Brain Slave" for the inside scoop!
Is it practical for human guinea pigs to unionize their labor? There's much that stands in the way of this happening, but collective action is still possible! Read two views of a drug study in Philadelphia where successful collective action happened -- Robert Helms on Human Guinea Pigs "Band Together" and Win a Pay Hike and Dave Onion on Human Guinea Pigs Organize and Win.
What makes an experiment an experiment? Read editor Bob Helms' interesting take on the bombing of Guernica, the Allied raid on the French town of Dieppe, and the tragic death of 19-year old University of Rochester student Nicole Wan.
A Guinea Pig Zero web exclusive: Sabina Tigges on the first successful (?) hand transplant recipient -- read Clint Hallam: Guinea Pig Takes the Reins.
Looking for Robert Helms' essay on "Anarchists in Medicine and Pharmacy"? It's moved to the Deadanarchists.org website!