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BERLIN †Charges otherwise testing the ethics of automotive safety Wednesday respected engulfed the University of Heidelberg, one of the oldest institutions of higher education in Germany.
Senior officials of the Forensic Medicine Institute of the University found themselves scrambling to defend a series of automatic crash tests, conducted over a period of nearly two decades, where human bodies were used in place of usual in plastic manikins.
The details of the trials were published prominently in two German newspapers Tuesday, including the mass circulation Bild Zeitung, said some of the bodies used were those of children aged 2-13 years.
The revelations, largely confirmed by the university authorities, have triggered a wave of public outrage and condemnation of several official organizations.
Feeling the strong public reaction, Bild Zeitung splashed a monitoring report in its editions Wednesday through the first page, with a photograph of the Chief Scientist of the project under the title, Professor Horror.
The university authorities have admitted that over 200 human bodies were used in crash tests conducted by the Institute since 1972 and that in at least six cases, the bodies were those of children.
The last test involving the body of a child was performed in 1989, according to the director of the Institute, Rainer Mattern.
Mattern defended the tests, saying they were needed to confirm the accuracy of the tests and the results homunculus helped make driving safer for life.
He said that in all cases involving children, parental consent was sought and received before the tests were performed.
The state government of Baden-Württemberg, where Heidelberg is Wednesday requested a written explanation from the university detailing the scientific rationale for these tests and provide proof that the authorization to use the bodies were obtained in advance of their parents.
The institute reported making contract testing of several car manufacturers According to Bild Zeitung, these included a group of about 40 German carmakers and component manufacturers calling Automobil-Technik, which included a large number of big names such as Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz of the industry and General Motors subsidiary Opel AG.
The non-German producers were involved in financing other tests.
George Parker, assistant administrator for research and development for the national Office of Highway Safety, a division of the US Department of Transportation, said at least three universities in the United States used cadavers to test injuries and human tolerances in automobile accidents They are the University of Virginia, Wayne State University in Detroit and the Medical College of Wisconsin.
You can not know the rigor tests are the injuries and what human tolerances You have to find the threshold where this happens, Parker said.
There is no ethical problem because the bodies used were all donated to medical science, and I know that the University of Virginia called families and told them what use is made of a corpse donation But bodies of children are never used because they are in Germany.
Parker said the National Academy of Sciences studied the issue around 1980 and approved the use of corpses.
All German automobile club ADAC, normally an ally of big German automotive industry, condemned the trials Heidelberg.
In an era where animal experiments are in question, these tests should be performed on mannequins and not on the corpses of children, the ADAC said in a written statement.
The leaders of the Catholic Church in Germany and the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano also condemned the decision to use the corpses, with the theologian Gino Concetti newspaper describing the procedure was repugnant to the conscience.
The writer Robert personal time L Jackson in Washington contributed to this report.
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