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Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses »

The Associated Press reports on the story as though it should be read as the last news bit on a 11pm local news, after weather and sports..
A fun little tale about the government testing 100 Americans over the next year to see just what happens when the flu is sent directly into their bodies..
What I wonder, though, is the darker side of this … 
How many times are experiments done on Americans without knowledge?  
Sure, I have my tin foil hat appropriately adjusted. 
But when I see a story like this drop, I always question is they are trying to get something like this more into the mainstream for some reason