Saw this on the news today. Hm..., is it sad that I'm not shocked by this? There were numerous unethical clinical researchs in history and unfortunately this wasn't the first one.
US apologizes for 1940s STD study in Guatemala
By LAURAN NEERGAARD (AP)
WASHINGTON — American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehensible research."
The discovery dredges up past wrongs in the name of science — like the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study in this country that has long dampened minority participation in medical research — and could complicate ongoing studies overseas that depend on cooperation from some of the world's poorest countries to tackle tough-to-treat diseases.
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