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US apologizes for 1940s Guatemala Syphilis experiments

August 14, 2013Global Politics

U.S. officials have apologized for immoral experiments done on hundreds of Guatemalans in the 1940s to test the effectiveness of penicillin in treating syphilis. Dr. Art Caplan at the University of Pennsylvania and Susan Reverby at Wellesley College.

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