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Surely Johnson and Johnson will come to ‘regret’ the toxic covid injections as well-

[BMJ](https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o681)

**The drug company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has expressed regret after court documents unsealed in talcum powder litigation showed that it funded a 1971 study in which Pennsylvania prison inmates, most of them black, were injected subcutaneously with asbestos.**

The company paid Albert Kligman, a dermatologist who had recently invented the acne medicine tretinoin, to compare the effects of its talcum based Baby Powder on skin with the effects of chrysotile and tremolite asbestos.

Many of the studies carried out by Kligman at Holmesburg Prison in the 1960s and ’70s are already public knowledge**, but J&J’s involvement had gone largely unnoticed.**

Ten prisoners were paid as little as $10 to receive injections of talcum and of both types of asbestos in their lower backs to study skin reactions. Chrysotile asbestos, generally recognised as the most dangerous form, …

**Related:[ Johnson & Johnson knew for decades talcum powder contained asbestos, reports allege](https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5430)**

**Executives at Johnson & Johnson repeatedly discussed their worries about the potential health effects of asbestos contamination of their talcum Baby Powder even as they told regulators and the public that all their tests were finding none.**

**But J&J *‘regrets’* their human experimentation.** **As they continued to lie and cover up for decades**.

**Ph**[**ooey**!](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/phooey)
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