The saddest part of this article, "There were jaws dropping in the news-room when we heard this."

This is relatively common knowledge that the US did this sort of thing. Even on it's own citizens, they'd infect black men in asylums with syphilis and deny them the drugs needed to cure them so they could track the progress of the disease in the '50s.

That "Journalists" who's careers SHOULD be built on a foundation of understanding of modern history had no idea this sort of thing went on should be an embarrassment to the entire country.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:

The saddest part of this article, "There were jaws dropping in the news-room when we heard this."
This is relatively common knowledge that the US did this sort of thing. Even on it's own citizens, they'd infect black men in asylums with syphilis and deny them the drugs needed to cure them so they could track the progress of the disease in the '50s.
That "Journalists" who's careers SHOULD be built on a foundation of understanding of modern history had no idea this sort of thing went on should be an embarrassment to the entire country.


Which he actually mentioned if you bothered to watch the whole thing. Tuskegee syphilis experiment

This reminded me of a book I read recently, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. It said that physicians can legally take tissue samples from you, without your consent, any time you visit them. Even today.