Snapshot · Conspiracy Theories
Cameron subjected patients to temperatures as high as 107°F for a full hour in one experiment — concluding that schizophrenic patients respond to heat the same as anyone else.
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Born in Scotland and settled in Montreal as a professor of psychiatry, Cameron is chosen to lead the Allan Memorial Institute because of his pioneering research into mood and brain disorders [1] — Carter Roy "Before Cameron ever ran the Allan Memorial Institute, he was subjecting patients to 107°F temperatures for an hour and restricting epilepti…" 07:40 . His stated aim — finding a cure for schizophrenia — sounds admirable. But his methods raise immediate red flags. In one experiment, Cameron exposes patients to extreme heat of up to 107°F for a full hour, concluding only that schizophrenic patients respond to heat just like everyone else — a result anyone could have predicted without harming a single person. In another, he restricts epileptic patients to just 20 ounces of water per day to study whether dehydration reduces seizures. The side effects are severe: acidosis, dangerous weight loss. One epileptic patient dies. The results are unremarkable. Carter Roy makes the damning observation explicit: all of this happens before the CIA gets involved. The ends, he says, do not justify the means.
Before Cameron ever ran the Allan Memorial Institute, he was subjecting patients to 107°F temperatures for an hour and restricting epileptics to 20 ounces of water a day. One epileptic patient died. The results were obvious and not worth the suffering — yet the CIA gave him money anyway.
Cameron's epilepsy patients were given only 20 ounces of water per day in a dehydration trial, causing acidosis and severe weight loss, and one patient died during the experiment.
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