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Wait 'till the fire turns green ([personal profile] the_archfiend) wrote2010-10-05 07:00 pm

In the wake of the Tuskegee experiment

It's a bit of a slog, but David Gorski's piece on Science-Based Medicine on the Guatemalan syphillis "experiment" conducted largely by American researchers in the 1940's is worth perusing, if only to remind medical researchers on how not to conduct such studies.