Bay Area doctor claims no evidence of harm from allegedly racist experiments on inmates

A San Francisco Bay Area dermatologist and university professor accused last year of using state prisoners in decades-old experiments that included pesticide injections has denied in a legal filing that his accusers had any evidence he caused harm. Dr. Howard Maibach, now in his mid-90s, filed a court petition challenging a University of California at San Francisco report accusing him of using “questionable research methods” in experiments in the ’60s and ’70s on at least 2,600 male inmates at the California Medical Facility, a state prison hospital in Vacaville. According to the petition, the...