If you missed the amazing story of Guatemala, which was discovered by a professor at Wellesley College, take a minute to read it. Basically, doctors use prostitutes and other means to infect soldiers, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis. The United States today apologized for the incident, which involved U.S. Public Health Service and the National Institutes of Health.
Next, remember that although Guatemala's experiment was conducted between 1946-1948, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (shown here) lasted for decades and did not end until it was exposed by media in 1972. Moreover, the Tuskegee subjects were denied treatment, while the Guatemalans were treated after being infected. If these facts do not download, you Unshockable.
Several books on the Tuskegee experiment are available if you want to read more. Among them: "Bad Blood" by James H. Jones, "Medical Apartheid" by Harriet A. Washington, and "Review of Tuskegee" by Susan M. Reverby.
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