I tell ya what…who *wasn’t* conducting horribly unethical experiments on minorities in the 40’s?
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.
About one third of those who were infected never got adequate treatment.
Hey, at least we did it for a good reason.
The STD experiments were conducted with the cooperation of the Guatemalan government. During that time, the U.S. — which had a long association with the Guatemalan military — exerted a powerful influence in the Latin American country, largely in order to protect the interests of the American-based United Fruit Company. In 1954 the U.S. CIA helped overthrow Guatemala’s democratically elected president because of land reforms that opposed the multinational corporation.
Oh, right. That’s why they call them “banana republics”. Our bad.
Personally, I’m not a big fan of these “golden days” I keep hearing the Boomers talk about. Insanely high taxes, governments infecting people for fun and profit, institutionalized racism, world wars, no rock and roll…sounds pretty much like your typical futuristic dystopia, not the golden age of a great Republic.
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