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Title: U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments
Category: Political
Posted By: DerbyX
Date: 2010-10-01 10:37:22

[GreenTiger]

This sounds like something North Korea would do.

Not one of our finer moments to be sure.

[BeaverFever]

why did it take 70 years?????

[herbie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_experiment

[desertdude]

God knows what other crap is going on at the moment that we will learn about in the future.

[Dragom]

Well it's harder to pull this stuff now then it was back then.

[desertdude]

I think thats what they thought back then aswell

[Khar]

BeaverFever BeaverFever:

why did it take 70 years?????

The knowledge of the Guatemalan subjects was not known, as the records of this were actually hidden. Not everyone involved got adequate treatment. A Professor of Women's Studies, Dr. Maria Reverby, when she was researching information on the Tuskegee Experiment (which is linked in herbie's post) recently discovered this information and brought it to light.

In context, the response from the government was quite quick once it came into their view -- it's unlikely many previous governments knew about this two year sub-set of the greater set of experiments, and those officials who knew were somewhat protected by the fact that regulations for treatment of human test subjects were sparse.

The article contains most of this information, I believe.

EDIT: Not, not mot.

[herbie]

No need to test shit on criminals and minorities these days. Offer students $20 and they're so broke they'll sign the waivers and line up volunteers.

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