I knew about the Tuskegee experiments, but this is my first time hearing about this.

Ain't this a mess!?  Dirty jokers...  
 

U.S. apologizes for Guatemala STD experiments

Government researchers infected patients with syphilis, gonorrhea without their consent in the 1940s

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39456324/ns/health-sexual_health /?GT1=43001

i heard about this on the radio this morning...smh  the US gov't is full of conspiracies...

And people wonder why this country is hated by so many...

SMDH...makes me worry even more about the things they DON'T tell us about. 

This is exactly the type of thing that should make people at least consider where exactly HIV came from.  I'm not saying they gotta believe it's a c-o-n-spriracy, but growing up knowing about things like Tuskegee always made me suspicious of everything.  This totally confirms and compounds that. 

agreed.

and i find it hard to believe they can come up with Viagra but are still trying to solve the answer for cancer......

Her Royal Flyness took the words out of my mouth.  OK now