LEST WE FORGET : 75 years on from the Nuremberg Code

The Nuremberg Code is the one of the most important documents in the history of the ethics of medicine

The Code was formulated 75 years ago, in August 1947, in Nuremberg, Germany by Allied judges sitting in judgment of Nazi doctors accused of conducting murderous & torturous medical interventions in the concentration camps (the so-called Doctors' Trial).

The fundamental principle of the Code is that free & informed consent is a must before a person undergoes any medical intervention. Where there is risk there must be choice.

FREE - without any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, or other ulterior form of coercion.

INFORMED - with sufficient knowledge & comprehension of the risks/benefits involved as to enable a person to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

Every Anzac Day, we say ‘’Lest We Forget’’ but as a society, filled with propaganda that these experimental injections would ‘make us safe’ we sold-out these principles.