In 1973, Dr. Stanley Plotkin penned a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine in which he justified his experiments on vulnerable intellectually disabled children, saying they “are humans in form but not in social potential.”1 Those sorts of prejudices did nothing to damage his lofty reputation among his colleagues. Vaccinologists consider the annual Stanley Plotkin Award the Nobel Prize of vaccinology. In 2019, the British Medical Journal called Plotkin “the Godfather of vaccines.”2 These homegrown American medical Mengeles most often targeted impoverished American Indians and Blacks in
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