Via MSNBC: “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.”
This ghastly project was recently discovered by a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College in the course of her research on the Tuskegee experiment.
Hillary Clinton and Kathleen Sebelius will offer public apologies today for the role of the U.S. Public Health Service in the Guatemala project.
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