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U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments
MSNBC ^ | 10-1-2010 | By Robert Bazell

Posted on 10/01/2010 11:04:43 AM PDT by Redalways

U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago.

Many of those infected were encouraged to pass the infection onto others as part of the study.

(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gonorrhea; guatemala; health; news; syphilis
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1 posted on 10/01/2010 11:04:47 AM PDT by Redalways
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To: Redalways

....and then Odumbo came along......
Meanwhile, his brother lives in a 9x6 hut


2 posted on 10/01/2010 11:08:10 AM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Redalways
And this is news now, why? To divert political attention....

Mike

3 posted on 10/01/2010 11:08:18 AM PDT by MichaelP (Democrats are the party of Special Re-education)
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To: Redalways

Must have been the New Deal for Central America.


4 posted on 10/01/2010 11:08:50 AM PDT by SeeSharp
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To: Redalways

The Guatemalans are returning the favor.......


5 posted on 10/01/2010 11:10:03 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Redalways

Why? Central Americans gave it to the Europeans in the first place.. we were just giving it back...


6 posted on 10/01/2010 11:11:17 AM PDT by snarkbait (<<For Rent>>)
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To: Redalways

What?


7 posted on 10/01/2010 11:11:54 AM PDT by ColdOne (GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^))......November and Beyond!)
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To: Redalways

truman (d). nuff said.


8 posted on 10/01/2010 11:12:04 AM PDT by sappy (criminallibs)
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To: Redalways
From final paragraph in article The STD experiments were conducted with the cooperation of the Guatemalan government. .
10 posted on 10/01/2010 11:16:00 AM PDT by ColdOne (GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^))......November and Beyond!)
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To: Redalways

How about Guatemala THANK US for providing jobs, housing, education and welfare for 2 million of their own illegal citizens here, and we’ll just call it even?


11 posted on 10/01/2010 11:17:04 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Redalways

More than 60 years ago...

That would mean it was done by DEMOCRATIC presidents—either Harry Truman or Franklin Roosevelt.

Why isn’t the MSM or President Obama making a big deal about how awful these two presidents were?


12 posted on 10/01/2010 11:18:25 AM PDT by Brookhaven (The next step for the Tea Party--The Conservative Hand--is available at Amazon.com)
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To: Redalways

Just more of the American apology tour. Hillary is getting a little desperate for events though....all the way back to the forties to bash America this time, Hill?


13 posted on 10/01/2010 11:23:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Redalways

When will 98% of the Blacks apologize for helping to put corrupt country destroying Imam Obama in office?

.... waiting.... waiting... waiting....


14 posted on 10/01/2010 11:23:38 AM PDT by Gator113 (Beauty will devour the Beast in 2012. Kill "Obamamosque"@ Ground Zero)
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To: Redalways; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; Battle Axe; null and void; ...
Bump & a micro ping, this is the BBC version.

US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala

First, do no harm. What activist boneheads in a rat administration! What else were they infected with?

Tuskegee was unethical and immoral because they let it continue once they knew penicillin could cure syphilis, but the U.S. government didn't encourage the original infection as in Guatemala. They just diagnosed it and let the infection continue to study its natural course, IIRC.

15 posted on 10/01/2010 11:47:21 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: Redalways
Another reason to shrink the size and scope of government and fight for transparency.

Obama is against all three.

16 posted on 10/01/2010 11:49:59 AM PDT by TheThinker (Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
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To: Redalways

This thread is pretty badly infected also. Takes a special sort of jerk not to be sickened by this.


17 posted on 10/01/2010 11:52:44 AM PDT by Romulus (The Traditional Latin Mass is the real Youth Mass)
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To: Redalways

There are times when I feel really ashamed of my country.

This is one of those times.

I don’t know how a free nation can get away with this. It is indefensible, obviously, and it troubles me.

I know it was a while ago, but, it worries me that we might be doing something similar now that most of us don’t know about.


18 posted on 10/01/2010 11:53:14 AM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero

It was the “Progressives”. They are “evil”. They believe that the end justifies the means like Marx. They believe they are god and can create a superior human—perfect man—to create the utopia on earth.

Yes, we have Progressives/Marxists in the White House and I have NO DOUBT they are doing similar experiments by mandating vaccinations, “swine flue shots” etc., injecting known toxins into our children so they don’t get sexually transmitted diseases and diseases that occur in the drug addict world. Very sick and destructive to fertility and the brain’s IQ.

Intentionally....yes, I think the pharmaceutical companies are in league with the devil to eliminate billions of future worthless eaters and quicken the death by creating autoimmune diseases and increasing alzheimers so that the established death panels will be able to eliminate millions.

Pessimistic view? Yes, because nihilism is what the Progressives are all about.

We have to rid the world of this godless ideology which perverts natural law.


19 posted on 10/01/2010 12:23:30 PM PDT by savagesusie
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"...study conducted from 1946-1948..."

Not Bush's fault!!!!

20 posted on 10/01/2010 12:54:14 PM PDT by Red Dog #1
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