Not a CT! Did the CIA create AIDS? A forum of eugenics?

[TheSarcastinator]

2. Understatement: "Best not to get too comfortable with what our government is and is not capable of."

Tuskeegee, MKULTRA, and the Guatemalan Syphilis horror are just the things we know about.

"Susan Reverby, a professor at Wellesley College in the US, uncovered the experiment while researching the Tuskegee syphilis study in which hundreds of African American men were left untreated for 40 years from the 1930s.

The Guatemalan study went further by deliberately infecting its subjects. Not only did it violate the hippocratic oath to do no harm but it echoed Nazi crimes exposed around the same time at the Nuremberg trials."


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jun/08/guatemala-victims-us-syphilis-study

On edit: I love that the defender's first reaction to all of this is always "Well, the Guatemalans helped!" as if that somehow makes our responsibility for this madness dissipate.