Godwin's law revisited

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Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom has said the US committed "crimes against humanity" in a study that infected hundreds of Guatemalans with gonorrhoea and syphilis more than 60 years ago.
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The study by Prof Reverby shows that US government medical researchers infected almost 700 people in Guatemala with two sexually transmitted diseases. The patients - prisoners and people suffering mental health problems - were unaware they were being experimented upon.
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Prof Reverby has previously done research on the Tuskegee experiment, where the US authorities measured the progress of syphilis in African-American sharecroppers without telling them they had the disease or adequately treating it. (BBC online)
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Still, I'm sure that the Americans wouldn't get caught doing anything like this nowadays ;)
 
Big deal, **** happens. Clinton apologised, Obama has done the same and licked his shoes. ;)

You wouldn’t be posting this if it America wasn’t involved. :p
 
Ah yes, the 'apologise afterwards only if people kick up a fuss attitude' and a bit of do as we say not as we do moral conduct from the yanks.

To be fair though the apology's been made in public, move on now.

Edit - what does this have to do with Godwin's law?
 
This thread fails... no relation to Godwin, no real content, a snide attack on the USA from Stockhausen...

Perhaps if it was more than a link and run...
 
"She says the Guatemalan government gave permission for the tests."

The article also says it'll delve deeper to find out why it was running those tests. Very weird, surely even at that time syphilis was known as a disease.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
"She says the Guatemalan government gave permission for the tests."

The article also says it'll delve deeper to find out why it was running those tests. Very weird, surely even at that time syphilis was known as a disease.
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The name "syphillis" originates from a 16th Century poem, so yes - it's been a known disease for quite some time.
 
Is the reference to Godwin's law due to the eugenics programme that was pursued by the Nazis? If so I'm not really seeing that much of a link here, the Tuskegee Experiment as mentioned (also by the same nation) is more analogous.

It's a pretty shocking set of experiments and does make you wonder how those conducting them could morally justify it to themselves.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Is the reference to Godwin's law due to the eugenics programme that was pursued by the Nazis? If so I'm not really seeing that much of a link here, the Tuskegee Experiment as mentioned (also by the same nation) is more analogous.

It's a pretty shocking set of experiments and does make you wonder how those conducting them could morally justify it to themselves.
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Eugenics programmes were carried out by the US, Canada, Sweden, Belgium and several other countries. Nazi Germany's Eugenics programmes is just the most infamous and widespread.

Up until the end of WW2 it was an accepted albeit ultimately wrong to our standards, scientific practice.
 
Dolph said:
This thread fails... no relation to Godwin, no real content, a snide attack on the USA from Stockhausen...

Perhaps if it was more than a link and run...
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I wonder what his background is? As he comes across as very far left to the point where is makes himself sound anti-western, maybe he would be happier in a country like Cuba, North korea or China?
 
Castiel said:
Eugenics programmes were carried out by the US, Canada, Sweden, Belgium and several other countries. Nazi Germany's Eugenics programmes is just the most infamous and widespread.

Up until the end of WW2 it was an accepted albeit ultimately wrong to our standards, scientific practice.
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Thanks, although I did know that eugenics programmes were carried out by a number of countries but none of the above except Germany would give rise to Godwin's law hence trying to see if that was the link. Although given there is almost nothing else in the story to suggest a link it's probably slightly redundant as a question.
 
semi-pro waster said:
Thanks, although I did know that eugenics programmes were carried out by a number of countries but none of the above except Germany would give rise to Godwin's law hence trying to see if that was the link. Although given there is almost nothing else in the story to suggest a link it's probably slightly redundant as a question.
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I was agreeing that Stockhousens reference is tenuous at best. Given his other thread on the Iceland riots he seems to have a talent for tenuous connections.
 
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