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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.
Originally posted by Erasurehead
Disgusting behavoir by the American government. I can only imagine what else our government has done to people. What a disgrace. This is something the Nazis would have done.
Originally posted by Becoming
Why would the US apologize?
It was 60 years ago, how many people in DC right now was still there that long ago?
I saw one post said they was sorry because they got caught. Got caught doing what? They didn't sign anything authorizing this, they didn't sit on meetings, they didn't hear rumors that this was going to happen.
Who exactly got caught doing what?