USVirgin Posted October 1, 2010 Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 The United States apologized Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis. In the experiment, aimed at testing the then-new drug penicillin, inmates were infected by prostitutes and later treated with the antibiotic. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 1, 2010 Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 I was reading this earlier. It was 1946 ~ 1948 that they were doing this. They did the same to black folk in Alabama. They gave LSD to GIs in the 60's/70's. They are dumping who knows what in the drinking water today. Anyone see a pattern here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted October 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 They gave LSD to GIs in the 60's/70's. I thought the GIs were doing that on their own. I know I was! :content: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted October 1, 2010 Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 Errrr...that's another story :hubba: :nahnah: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BaronTT Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Interesting that they did it in concert with the Guatemalan govt. "It was done in conjunction with the Guatemalan government," Reverby told The Upshot in a phone interview Friday morning. "They had permission from the Guatemalan government." http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101001/hl_yblog_upshot/u-s-apologizes-to-guatemalans-for-secret-std-experiments Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 The govmt did NOT infect black folks in the Tuskeegee experiments. What they did was lie to them! Dr Mengele would have been proud of them. << The Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the study in 1932. Nearly 400 poor black men with syphilis from Macon County, Ala., were enrolled in the study. For participating in the study, the men were given free medical exams, free meals and free burial insurance. They were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the men were told they were being treated for "bad blood," a local term used to describe several illnesses, including syphilis, anemia and fatigue. The 40-year study was controversial for reasons related to ethical standards, primarily because researchers failed to treat patients appropriately after the 1940s validation of penicillin as an effective cure for the disease. Revelation of study failures led to major changes in U.S. law and regulation on the protection of participants in clinical studies. Now studies require informed consent (with exceptions possible for U.S. Federal agencies which can be kept secret by Executive Order, communication of diagnosis, and accurate reporting of test results. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, cited as "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history," led to the 1979 Belmont Report and the establishment of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). It also led to federal regulation requiring Institutional Review Boards for protection of human subjects in studies involving human subjects. The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) manages this responsibility within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 They gave LSD to GIs in the 60's/70's. I thought the GIs were doing that on their own. I know I was! :content: I know for a fact that the US military tests vaccines on trainees before allowing them to be used on humans. I was a guinea pig for a new flu vaccine at Fort Ord way back in 1968. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 The govmt did NOT infect black folks in the Tuskeegee experiments. What they did was lie to them! Dr Mengele would have been proud of them. << The Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute, began the study in 1932. Nearly 400 poor black men with syphilis from Macon County, Ala., were enrolled in the study. For participating in the study, the men were given free medical exams, free meals and free burial insurance. They were never told they had syphilis, nor were they ever treated for it. According to the Centers for Disease Control, the men were told they were being treated for "bad blood," a local term used to describe several illnesses, including syphilis, anemia and fatigue. The 40-year study was controversial for reasons related to ethical standards, primarily because researchers failed to treat patients appropriately after the 1940s validation of penicillin as an effective cure for the disease. Revelation of study failures led to major changes in U.S. law and regulation on the protection of participants in clinical studies. Now studies require informed consent (with exceptions possible for U.S. Federal agencies which can be kept secret by Executive Order, communication of diagnosis, and accurate reporting of test results. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, cited as "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history," led to the 1979 Belmont Report and the establishment of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP). It also led to federal regulation requiring Institutional Review Boards for protection of human subjects in studies involving human subjects. The Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) manages this responsibility within the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment Supposedly the same people involved in both cases...I did read a report long ago, that the over looked fact was that the syphilis in the Tuskegee experiment some how found it's way into white women... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unit731 Posted October 7, 2010 Report Share Posted October 7, 2010 Yes. LINK "Mr. Lowry's book deals with sex and the role it played amongst the performers in the Civil War. Although sex is usually left out of the history books, its prevalence in every day Civil War life makes it hard to believe that a book like this hasn't already been written." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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