U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago.
Many of those infected were encouraged to pass the infection onto others as part of the study.
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment.
On Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are expected to offer extensive apologies for actions taken by the U.S. Public Health Service…
The episode raises inevitable comparisons to the infamous Tuskegee experiment, the Alabama study where hundreds of African-American men were told they were being treated for syphilis, but in fact were denied treatment. That U.S. government study lasted from 1932 until press reports revealed it in 1972.
The Guatemala experiments…were discovered by Susan Reverby, a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College, and was posted on her website [.pdf].
According to Reverby’s report, the Guatemalan project was co-sponsored by the U.S. Public Health Service, the NIH, the Pan-American Health Sanitary Bureau (now the Pan American Health Organization) and the Guatemalan government.
What will be exposed, say, in 2070 about what politicians are doing to exploit ordinary folks today?
19 even? sometimes late at night I wonder, why?
#13
With less government it would just have been Pfeizer, Bayer, Monsanto etc doing the experiments and they would never have come out.
Here is the key…. It is called a business for a reason. You vote with your dollars. If you don’t like the way a company operates, don’t purchase from them. If enough people do this the company goes out of business. Problem solved. Also, How many lawsuits would there be against these companies if they were caught doing this?
OK, sometimes people do good things just because they can.
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politicians??? what about the gates foundation????? they are scary!
criminal and very sad
Those of you blaming Truman I think he was a little to busy with the Marshall Plan, getting NATO set up, McCarthy in his face about every one he disagreed with, working on voting rights and fair employment practice for non white people ect… I highly doubt he knew much about this. Can any of you show his signature on order to make this study happen?
that would be like blaming Bush for the I35 bridge collapse in the twin cities
or as some of you Tea Partyers would think…
hey so what, its not like they were white god fearing christian who’s ancestors immigrated to the states at least 4 generations ago gesh what all the fuss they were individuals with an intellectual disability i mean retards.
The same era that offered Dr Mengele, Hitler, the peak of the KKK, Japanese ‘culture’… it was an era of barbarians.
That justifies nothing, it was a criminal act sanctioned by the US government, and those approving and carrying out those experiments should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, even if they are 99 years old.
Guatemalans hate us for our freedoms.
Well, our freedoms and United Fruit Company.
If any more revelations like this come out, sooner or later someone is going to start calling America “the Great Satan” or some other catchy name. We should really be careful to avoid that.
@NO More ETard
what lawsuits?
With less government there would be no regulations for them to break.
With market forces there is:
No EPA, because you can just not buy from companies that polute.
No OSHA, because you can simply not buy from companies that kill workers.
No NTSB, aircraft makers with too many crashes…
#30
I don’t believe I ever said NO government, just less government. At least you have some options to resolve issues with businesses. Good luck against the federal government.
You clueless non-thinking morons that cry “Less government and lower taxes” can’t give any exapmles of what to cut.
The right wing nut jobs would “privatize”(give away) everything if given the chance.
Just one of many unethical experiments done on American citizens and foreigners, presumably to keep us safe from the bad old Soviets.
Syphilis for blacks, rabbit fever for soldiers who refused to fight in WWII for religious reasons, dusting subway stations in NYC with bacteria to see how fast it spread, and hiring the japanese doctors from Unit 731 to do experiments rather than having them swing from a rope like they were supposed to.
Something similar was done down in Alabama to some blacks.
Wonder what Obama and his aids have in store for seniors?
#32
Boy! I see that your post is CHOCK full of fine examples! Sorry, my mistake. Oh, by the way, I can give you PLENTY of things that need to be cut but that wasn’t the point.
My POINT, althought you seem to prefer to ignore it and help me make my point, is that all I hear from the right is cut spending and taxes for the rich. Do you actually need examples as this is all the right has. Nothing more and nothing real or new. No changes what-so-ever. I am waiting to hear word one about exactly what,where, when and how other then doing away with SS, medicare and unemployment. do away with minimum wage and every way to encouirage job growth.
Do you have anything meanful to add?
If you are totally clueless I can provide all the examples you need. The rightwing mantra is as simple as I posted. Cut spending with no examples of what will be cut other then SS and all other social programs while blocking programs to create jobs. Cut taxes for the top few percent even if it means increased borrowing and send us into further debt. Quite hypocritical but nother new there.
Wow #1, you’re really suffering from Obama Derangement Syndrome. Next you’ll be blaming President Obama for Adam & Eve being banned from the Garden of Eden. Take your meds dude, seriously.
BailOutBob
Typical. Call names and refuse to discuss the issues. Nice. Welcome to the third grade dude.
BailOutBob
I have to apologize. I just realized that you are simply afraid that some one might come along and reduce the amount of welfare and food stamps you are getting. Doh! Sorry about that!