Posted on 10/02/2010 9:27:29 PM PDT by Racehorse
Great question!
Democrats are racists. Just saying...
The Guatemalan government was involved.
Let them apologize and compensate their countrymen.
Those responsible are dead. The Guatemalan government bears the greater blame, given that they have a greater responsibility to their own people than the US. Still, it was a wrongful act on the part of the US.
“Democrats are racists. Just saying...”
Even worse than that, they are Progressives. The United States Public Health Service using ignorant people and prisoners as lab rats.
And what party was in charge of the U.S. government when these atrocities were committed? Oh, gee, I’m forced to guess... < /sarc >
70 year old ;)
Bikk
apologies, I just saw your correction >.<
:)
Bikk
Wellll,
Obammy needed something to apologize about America.
It’s been three days since his last appoligy
Initially, the researchers infected female Guatemalan commercial sex workers with gonorrhea or syphilis, and then allowed them to have unprotected sex with soldiers or prison inmates. A total of some 1,500 people took part in the study. At least one patient died during the experiments, although it is not clear whether the death was from the tests or from an underlying medical problem. "This news makes me furious," capital resident Cindy Aceituno told Prensa Libre. "This just confirms that the United States and capitalism disregard human rights."
This occurred between 1946-48, and was on the watch of the democrats, who even under Truman had socialist tendencies. FDR certainly did.
Therefore, this is not about "capitalism" as the lady above concludes. It's about powerful centralized government believing it's a god.
The lesson: Don't trust Big Government.
It's a good lesson.
Great diversion for the democrats.
And liberals want to put more power in the hands of the elitist government.
Only ONE person died and that death was not even verified to be a result of the experiment. The rest WERE CURED with penicillin.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101002/hl_afp/usguatemalahealthsexdisease
“A total of some 1,500 people took part in the study. At least one patient died during the experiments, although it is not clear whether the death was from the tests or from an underlying medical problem.”
This article says only 696 men and women took part in the study.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/laplaza/2010/10/guatemala-std-apology-clinton-sebelius.html
DON’T YOU LOVE THE EXTENT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATIONW WILL GO TO TO TURN ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE ECONOMY AND THE DISASTER THEIR ADMIN IS IN THE MONTH LEADING UP TO THE ELECTION?
It my understanding that the documentation has not been released.
http://www.hhs.gov/1946inoculationstudy/
http://www.hhs.gov/1946inoculationstudy/findings.html
According to a “Syphilis Summary Report” and experimental logs in the archives, syphilis studies included CSWs, prisoners, and patients in the mental hospital. In the series of syphilis studies, a total of 696 subjects of individual experiments (some representing the same patients involved in several experiments) were exposed to infection (by sexual contact or inoculation). Of these, 427 (61%) were judged to be infected, of whom 369 (86%) received what was considered to be “adequate treatment” with injections of penicillin (defined by the investigators as > 3.4 million units).
Gonorrhea studies included CSWs, prisoners, soldiers, and mental hospital patients. In the series of gonorrhea studies, a total of 772 subjects of individual experiments (some apparently representing the same patients involved in several experiments) were exposed to infection (by sexual contact or inoculation). Of these, a summary report and experimental logs indicate that 234 (30%) were infected, 233 (99.5%) of whom were stated to have received treatment with injections of penicillin (300,000 units).
Chancroid studies included soldiers and mental hospital patients. A total of 142 subjects were exposed to infection by inoculation. Of these, a summary report and experimental logs indicate that 138 (97%) were infected, 129 (93%) of whom were stated to have received treatment with sulfathiazole (1 gram PO per day for 5 days).
***These morons didn’t have a clue about this until that blithering idiot, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, made a big deal about it.***
Word of wisdom to Barry (THE ONE!)
“Sometimes it is best to keep your mouth shut, and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Give them Obamacare. Then see how loud they scream.
It's all part of Cloward-Piven - anything to collapse the free markets.
"Progressives" merely pose as humanitarians. They were behind experimentation like this and are the major promoters of abortion and euthanasia, voluntary or otherwise.
They love abstract "humanity". It's just humans they are not particularly fond of.
Well, we weren't a superpower then. :-)
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