U.S. government feels sorry about Tuskegee experiment – Today, public shock with the confession of U.S. Government in Washington, related to American scientists’ experiments some years ago. The one shocking news is related to the Tuskegee experiment, in which the US government researcher works for about 50 years from 1932 until 1972. T he scientists found that around 600 Alabama’s black people were infected by syphilis, but they remain silent, and more cruel is that the scientists didn’t even try to offer cure for the black man.
The other heart breaking fact from medical society in US is that there was an experiment funded by U.S. government, and this experiment is also as cruel as Tuskegee experiment. In 1940, the American scientists worked in Guatemala, in which despite of giving cure to the Guatemalan people, they were infecting them with a disease. The disease is a dangerous one- syphilis, and the victims of the experiments were patients in one mental hospital and prisoners in jail in Guatemala.
The experiments, both Tuskegee experiment and funded research in Guatemala as the way to test penicillin- which is new discovery at that decade - whether they really can cure the disease such as sexually transmitted disease or not. However, the fact that they use human to test it is obviously inhumane, and it can’t be said as right. The other irony is that the experiments were hidden from public for decades and it is shocking to know that there was no results or useful benefits from this experiments.
Regarding to the Tuskegee experiment and other one, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary announced that President Barack Obama has already known the news and in this situation he will have talk with Alvaro Colom, Guatemala's president, concerning the tragic news. It is obviously important for U.S. officials to confess and declare their apology regarding the “reprehensible” research and experiments, not only to Guatemalan but also to publics all o
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