The Johns Hopkins University is being sued for $1B for an unethical US gov't study infecting over 1,000 people of color (Guatemalans) with an STD (syphilis)

Hmmm... they obviously didn't learn from Tuskegee??

The Johns Hopkins University is being sued for $1B for an unethical US gov't study infecting over 1,000 people of color (Guatemalans) with an STD (syphilis). More than 780 people filed the $1 billion dollar lawsuit in April.

The study funded by the US government intended to test how well antibiotics like penicillin could work in treatment or prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis and gonorrhea. The total study population involved over 5,500 Guatemalan prisoners, sex workers, soldiers, children, and psychiatric patients.

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From a few comes a great nation. The Lord God of Islam taught me that in 1555 a devil by the name of John Hawkins, or Hopkins, of England brought the first of our parents here for slave purposes. We were not to be citizens, not to be represented as human or to be given equal justice under the American laws.

Link: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/Columns_4/article_102011.shtml