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US Claims Immunity in 1940s Guatemalan STD Experiments

6/5/2012

 
See the 02/07/12 entry for the original LIBERTARIAN BIOETHICS BLOG commentary on this issue.

This blog entry is a response to an 01/11/12 christianpost.com article by Luiza Oleszczuk titled "US Claims Immunity in 1940s STD Experiments on Guatemalan Orphans, Prostitutes," in which Oleszczuk reported that the United States government claimed sovereign immunity to a lawsuit filed by Guatemalan victims and their heirs.  To refresh the reader's memory, the United States government ADMITTED in a September 2011 report (based on an investigation by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues) that United States government researchers, from 1946 to 1948, purposely exposed without consent approximately 1,300 Guatemalans to sexually transmitted diseases, which killed at a minimum 83 of the victims.  So how does a criminal organization first admit the commission of horrible crimes then deny the commission of horrible crimes?  The answer is as old as aggression: throw the members of the  criminal organization who committed the horrible crimes under the bus.  How did the criminal organization in question, the United States government, employ this strategy in this case?  The execution of this strategy was entrusted to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues Chair Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., who, immediately upon publication of the September 2011 report, shifted blame from the United States government to the researchers by stating that the "individuals who approved, conducted, facilitated and funded these experiments are morally culpable to various degrees for these wrongs."  

Strong work, Dr. Gutmann.  Regime work suits you.  You'll be signing off on drone assassinations within the continental United States before long.  

U.S. Apologizes for Guatemala STD Experiments

2/7/2012

 
I first learned about the U.S. government STD inoculation study in Guatemala  from an October 2010 msnbc.com article by Robert Bazell titled "U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments."  The LIBERTARIAN BIOETHICS BLOG obviously opposes criminal government medical research.  Below I tantalize readers with a sample of morsels from this shameful news item:

     U.S. government crime: "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." 

     U.S. government excuses: "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health." Also, "officials noted that there were no formalized regulations regarding protection of human studies during the 1940s."

     U.S. government criminal accomplice: "The STD experiments were conducted with the cooperation of the Guatemalan government."

     U.S. government untruths: "As we move forward to better understand this appalling event, we reaffirm the importance of our relationship with Guatemala, and our respect for the Guatemalan people, as well as our commitment to the highest standards of ethics in medical research."

     U.S. government plan to expand imperialism into the realm of medical research: "In addition to the apology, the U.S. is setting up commissions to ensure that human medical research conducted around the globe meets "rigorous ethical standards.""

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