Robert Helms, activist, professional research subject and editor of the legendary zine Guinea Pig Zero, will be speaking at the University of Minnesota. Here are the details.
Lecture
Guinea Pig Zero:
Notes from a Professional Research Subject
Robert Helms
Founding editor of Guinea Pig Zero: A Journal for Human Research Subjects
Thursday Jan 26 2006
12:15PM-1:15PM
Moos Tower 2-650
University of Minnesota
Publishers Weekly says:
In 1996, freelance lab rat and activist Robert Helms, under the nom de plume Guinea Pig Zero, began to publish a zine with the same name. In Guinea Pig Zero: An Anthology of the Journal for Human Research Subjects, he gathers together a few dozen contributions (many of which he penned) exploring "this dark little corner of modern science from the subject's own viewpoint." From Donno's tale of going bonkers in a sleep-deprivation study, to Beth Lavoie's discussion of the various poisons to which soldiers in the Gulf War were exposed, to Helms's history of a 1935 test subject strike, these are strange and frightening stories that may make our trust in the medical establishment seem naive.
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