[PSA] The "Father of Retin-A" Albert Kligman conducted hundreds of unethical experiments on men in prison. "

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I'm reading Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete? and found this especially horrifying as someone who uses tretinoin. I had no idea it had such violently racist origins. Fair warning: the dehumanization is sickening.[Albert] Kligman, the "Father of Retin-A," conducted hundreds of experiments on the men housed in Holmesburg Prison and, in the process, trained many researchers to use what were later recognized as unethical research methods.Dr. Davis goes on to quote from Allen Hornblum's book, Acres of Skin: Human Experiments at Holmesburg Prison.When Dr. Kligman entered the aging prison he was awed by the potential it held for his research. In 1966, he recalled in a newspaper interview: "All I saw before me were acres of skin. It was like a farmer seeing a fertile field for the first time." ...He described it in this interview as "an anthropoid colony, mainly healthy" under perfect control conditions.
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