Professor Desmond O'Neill:

If I may say to the Senator that in the context of a five-minute cut down of a speech, and short questioning, I am more than happy to come back on the point raised by her. Much of The Lancet commission deals with the problem of normative conformity, of doctors staying silent during the T4 euthanasia experiment on the disabled people and about the failure of the German Medical Association for nearly 70 years to apologise. It was a much broader context than just around experiments.

I am happy to say it related to that but it was about the lessons for today of a lack of ethical insight and articulacy and calling out early when something appears to be a danger to the broader practice of medicine. There was no intention to mislead and if one reads within into the articles and fuller commission report, it is clear that the broader medical profession failed. The sharp pointy bit was what happened around experimentation. The widespread acceptance of sending children with psychiatric illness and intellectual disabilities towards the T4 euthanasia programme-----