- From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect.html?hp 9 comments science
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- What Are Science's Ugliest Experiments? - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/what-are-sciences-ugliest-experiments/ 13 comments
- Hearing Looks at V.D. Experiments on Guatemalan Prisoners - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/world/americas/31syphilis.html?amp%3Bsq=dr.+john+c.+cutler&%3Bst=cse&scp=1 5 comments
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