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Spreading syphilis and other horrors

When government scientists came up with the following idea, someone in the room should have said, “You want to do WHAT?” No one did, and so the U.S. Public Health Service in 1946 began paying diseased prostitutes to visit Guatemalan prisoners and infect them with syphilis.

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