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Shocking story about the US gov't intentionally infecting citizens with STDs.
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 11:19 AM
Friday, October 01, 2010
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I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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16 Comments:
What an embarrassing black mark on American history.
5:50 PM
This somewhat reminds me of Joseph Mengele's experiments in brazil.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091125-nazi-twins-brazil-mengele.html
10:24 AM
This is disgusting. I can't believe anyone could actually carry out such experiments. The first thing it mad me think of were the experiments the Nazis performed on Jews in concentration camps. I don't think an apology is enough to make up for what was done to these people. I can't think of anything, actually, that could make up for injecting a disease into someone's body without their consent. This is absolutely sickening
1:03 PM
Wow this is horrible. How could such an experiment be carried out with no one willing to stand up and put a stop to it?
2:18 PM
Why do you guys hate America so much?
2:35 PM
How come nobody put a stop to it? Did they just not know about it? It's so unethical. At least make sure everybody gets treatment for the diseases...
4:06 PM
Jack,
It's kind of complicated. It was the 1940s and the people were Guatemalan. Racism had a lot to do with it. Plus they were infecting poor people.
4:16 PM
It's interesting that this took place so soon after WW2, and the Nazi experiments in concentration camps. Also, that the same man who led the Guatemalan experiment also led an experiment of the same nature in Tuskegee in the US is absolutely horrible. What a terrible person.
10:25 PM
Here's more information on the Tuskegee experiments:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/01/guatemala.syphilis.tuskegee/?hpt=Mid
10:30 PM
It is not right that they did this but this was a different time and a different mindset. Countries all around the world were experimenting on others and while I do not condone this, I don't think the U.S. should apologize for something that happened so long ago. What is the point?
2:38 PM
I can't believe our government can still claim to be just after doing something so awful to people. And I wonder why they chose Guatemala.
3:20 PM
This just shows the amount of history that we don't know or we believe to know that isn't true. History changes dramatically. What my parents learned, is a lot different than what I'm learning now.
6:50 PM
Today we think this is absolutely disgusting, but in the 1940s it must have been somewhat except acceptable. As Mr. Carlisle said, Social Darwinism and social hierarchy had a lot to do with it. The government probably did it to experiment with the disease to see how it would affect the human body and I guess we should be thankful they did it to the Guatemalan's not our lower class. I don't agree with what the government did but I also don't think we should be apologizing for what the government did so long ago. That's like us apologizing for slavery. It was a different time.
8:00 PM
Kayla,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/18/AR2009061803877.html
Why shouldn't the US gov't apologize for something that was wrong in the first place?
9:49 PM
These test were designed to allow us to further understand STDs in order to help us better prevent and treat them. It is still shocking that there is a point in american history when such umethical experiments were conducted by our government.
10:36 PM
I think it is crazy to think how much stuff we may be completely unaware of that is going on in our country. They say America is ran by the people, but when the people don't know what's going on then who's running it?
10:11 PM
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