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evolution of various codes of ethics and ethical guidelines existing during the time a particular set of actions occurred

That damaging representations of the Yanomami were published and repeated even after such representations were criticized as likely to cause them harm

That a program of vaccination of Yanomami undertaken by James Neel in 1968 caused an epidemic of measles

That practices of anthropologists in the field were unethical, ignoring legal constraints and ethics codes and tending, either through oversight or purposefully, to exacerbate violence, spread disease, and violate the dignity of individual Yanomami through, for instance, inappropriate sexual relations

our response to the allegations will not always be to determine whether they are true or false, since in many cases this is simply undeterminable.

That anthropologists, especially Americans, and others generally ignored threats to the Yanomami and gave the highest priority to continuing established programs of research of no immediate benefit to the Yanomami

That anthropologists and others working with the Yanomami have not adequately addressed malnutrition, disease, and disorganization among them

That experiments involving the injection of radioactive iodine were carried out among the Yanomami without attention to the principles of informed consent then in effect