EXPOSED

U.S. ‘Mengele’ Secretly Exposed Guatemalans To STDs

By Elizabeth C.

HERE’S YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE OF GOVERNMENTAL ABUSE THAT HAPPENS ALL TOO OFTEN IN OUR WORLD.

A presidential panel revealed on Monday that U.S. government agencies performed medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s in which test subjects were unwittingly infected with sexually transmitted diseases. And the physician who led the experiment — Dr. John C. Cutler — was also involved in the reviled Tuskegee, Ala. experiments in which black men were secretly infected with syphilis and left untreated as they suffered and died. The revelation has led BlackAgendaReport to condemn Cutler as America’s “Joseph Mengele,” the notorious Nazi “doctor of death” who performed experiments on Jewish prisoners of war.

Between 1946 to 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau infected 1,3000 people to see whether penicillin could be an effective treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. The research was led by Dr. John Cutler, whose papers were discovered by a Wellesley College medical historian last year.

Those infected with syphillis without their knowledge included soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients. And in one “chillingly egregious” case, a terminally ill woman suffering from syphilis was infected with gonorrhea in her eyes by researchers “curious to see the impact of an additional infection,” the Associated Press reports.

The study concluded without any useful information being compiled.

“The researchers put their own medical advancement first and human decency a far second,” said Anita Allen, a member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.

Yet another example of why we need WikiLeaks’ work to be ultimately declared legal.