Posted on 08/30/2011 2:14:50 PM PDT by americanophile
ATLANTA (AP) — A presidential panel on Monday disclosed shocking new details of U.S. medical experiments done in Guatemala in the 1940s, including a decision to re-infect a dying woman in a syphilis study.
The Guatemala experiments are already considered one of the darker episodes of medical research in U.S. history, but panel members say the new information indicates that the researchers were unusually unethical, even when placed into the historical context of a different era.
"The researchers put their own medical advancement first and human decency a far second," said Anita Allen, a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
From 1946-48, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau worked with several Guatemalan government agencies to do medical research — paid for by the U.S. government — that involved deliberately exposing people to sexually transmitted diseases.
The researchers apparently were trying to see if penicillin, then relatively new, could prevent infections in the 1,300 people exposed to syphilis, gonorrhea or chancroid. Those infected included soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis.
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Why do Democrats hate minorities? When they aren’t aborting them, they are injecting them with vile diseases.
Why not fully disclosure? The “Democratic Administration of....”
Just how many evil things does government have to do before the believers in big government and central planning admit they have always been on the wrong side and the founders were not only right but damned brilliant.
Just how many evil things does government have to do before the believers in big government and central planning admit they have always been on the wrong side and the founders were not only right but damned brilliant.
Uh HUH, Hitler said they weren’t doing anything (experiments) that weren’t already being tried in the West.
So why don’t the Dums admit they are the scum of the earth. They have ALWAYS thought life is expendable.
Dumocrat Health Care System? Be afraid be VERY afraid.
Bingo!!!However the Gov. will probably do worse before the country folds or comes to its senses, however I believe that a LOT of blood is going to be shed between and then.
between now and then..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment (also known as the Tuskegee syphilis study or Public Health Service syphilis study) was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in poor, rural black men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government.
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