"Between 1946 and 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health worked with the Guatemalan government to infect 696 unsuspecting Guatemalans—including mental patients—with STDs in order to determine whether penicillin could work as a preventative measure for the disease. "Many of those infected were encouraged to pass the infection onto others as part of the study," MSNBC says. The so-called "Guatemala experiments" were discovered by Susan Reverby, a Wellesley professor who stumbled upon them while researching the Tuskegee experiments, a forty-year study in which the U.S. government also infected black men with syphilis up until the 1970s. NIH director Francis Collins is scheduled to discuss the issue at 11 this morning, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius apologized this morning for the "clearly unethical" experiments.'How does an apology help? As a Dept.Head I always say to my employees I don`t accept apologies...I`m sorry means nothing to me....Why? The deed has already been done.SORRY CANNOT HELP IT!Of course I believe you may be genuinely sorry but what should have happened is you should not have done it so you wouldn`t be standing in front of me saying you are sorry...damage has been done and 'damage control' is highly over rated!
Didn't the U.S. officials know lives were at stake? But Guatemala and its inhabitants are expendable......who cares? Just like all the fruit that's being exported to 3rd world countries,I see the apples and grapes on the side of the road daily, sorry not buying any why are you flooding my country with them? What are they loaded with? No thank you.......Is it because the population of most third world countries is black ? Why do you think the money promised to Haiti has not gone to them? They are BLACK....therefore expendable!
Can we hear now what experiment-gone-wrong caused Aids? That one came back to bite the US in the butt didn`t it? (no pun intended)...
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