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32. Guatemala syphilis experiments in 1940s called "chillingly egregious"

By/Ryan Jaslow / CBS News/ August 31, 2011, 11: 33 AM
Guatemala syphilis experiments in 1940s called "chillingly egregious"

(CBS/AP) What would you call deliberately infecting people with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases? If you were among a group of American medical researchers working in Guatemala in the 1940s, you would have called it science.
Chilling new details have emerged from the 1940s Guatemala syphilis trials, where U.S. researchers infected soldiers, prisoners, prostitutes, and the mentally ill with potentially-lethal STDs.

The Guatemala experiments have been considered a black eye on U.S. medical research's history since last year, when its files were unearthed by a Wellesley College medical historian, Dr. Susan M. Reverby. But members of a presidential panel tasked with reviewing the experiment say new information indicates researchers were especially unethical - even when placed into the historical context.
"The researchers put their own medical advancement first and human decency a far second," said Anita Allen, a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

From 1946 to 1948, Dr. John Cutler of the U.S. Public Health Service and colleagues worked with Guatemalan government agencies to conduct NIH-funded medical research that deliberately exposed 1,300 people to STDs like syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, to see if the newly discovered penicillin could prevent infection.

The commission revealed Monday only 700 of those infected were treated. Eighty-three people died.

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Clearly, this was many decades BEFORE U.S. "researchers" had as much practice at their craft.

No one in the world would buy the pompous posturing by right wingers that the US has neither motive, resources, nor history in doing things like this.