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This article has been nominated at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. Good luck! :-D --BorgQueen (talk) 14:11, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
These terms are not even in the see also section nor in the category tags at the bottom of the page and indeed they seem not to be anywhere in Wikipedia. But they are all over Google's page one. Are these subjects banned? BTW My tilde key doesn't work. What should I do? — Preceding unsigned comment added by General Student 21 (talk • contribs) 10:47, 27 April 2020 (UTC)
In the wiki article, it is currently written, "Hidden from the public, John Charles Cutler utilized healthy individuals in order to improve what he called `pure science.`"
This statement could use some re-wording. On interpretation is that healthy individuals were used in the study (not infected) in order to provide a comparison point (control group). That is, "John Charles Cutler included a control group of healthy patients in order to compare infected individuals to non-infected."
A second interpretation is that John Charles Cutler infected healthy individuals. What does it mean to "utilize" a healthy patient. Additionally, it is useless to note that John Cutler named some process `pure science` unless you, at the very least, summarize or describe that process. It's a bit like writing, "Joe Shmoe developed the `varight` process." Unless there is a wiki page on the "varight process," or you explain what the "varight` process," that statement is meaningless. It's like writing "Srah Silverman invented the wangdoodle." Unless you define what a "wangdoodle" is, who cares if she invented something called a "wangdoodle." What on earth is "pure science," as according to John Cutler? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.176.71 (talk) 22:36, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
The boston.com source says that US scientists "received the blessings of Guatemalan health authorities". This isn't really "Guatemala sponsored" --Supreme Deliciousness (talk) 21:17, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
The final statement " It is also hoped that a retrospective enquiry is undertaken to identify the culprits of such a heinous and foul minded crime against humanity. [2]" Sounds an awful lot like indiviual bias, perhaps the result of a copy paste from a news article. I am not a Wiki-editor so I did not delete it, however it does not fit in a wiki article from my experience and find it undermines the integrety of the article as a whole. Also the link to [2] has nothing to do with the statement unless it was a copy paste. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.12.244.249 (talk) 00:03, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
"Americans the world over are deeply ashamed of our foreign policy over the last 60 years,..."
No American public official, even a "Democrat" would ever say this. This statement being quoted and attributed to Clinton and Sebelius is surely a forgery.Eregli bob (talk) 01:06, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Edit history dates back to October 1, 2010. I thought something that happened in the '40s would already be covered on Wikipedia much earlier. --219.101.154.162 (talk) 05:34, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
There's a bit of new information around, and Cutler's records are available for perusal online. Changes should probably be made to reflect the fact that these experiments were not confined to syphilis only, though at a guess I'd say the fact that the syphilis experiments have been highlighted over the ones related to gonorrhea and other STDs is that they have been confirmed to have involved deliberate infection with syphilis material. It seems less likely that Guatemalan authorities would have allowed soldiers (tracked in the gonorrhea study) to be infected in this way. Nevard (talk) 03:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
The page implies that the US Administration pledged that there would be "no statute of limitations" for the medical ethics violations, but the two citations listed don't provide any evidence for this statement.
Anybody have thoughts on this? Anybody know what the statute of limitations is? I will edit and replace with a footnote on Alien Tort Claims statute of limitations issues in general unless someone chimes in within a couple of weeks. Invisible Flying Mangoes (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:13, 24 August 2011 (UTC).
Can someone with the necessary clearance change the title? Many experiments were done over the years of the study.
Regarding syphilis being used as shorthand to stand in for the other STDs studied (gonorrhea and chancroid), I think it might be due to the public knowing that syphilis has such dreaded consequences (insanity, for instance), and also to make the parallel with Tuskegee, which was going on contemporaneously. Postpostmod (talk) 17:27, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
“ETHICALLY IMPOSSIBLE”
STD Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948
Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Washington, D.C. September 2011
Link to pdf of report: "Ethically Impossible"
[http://www.bioethics.gov/cms/sites/default/files/Ethically-Impossible_PCSBI_0.pdf "Ethically Impossible"]
Postpostmod (talk) 17:56, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
The article talks about poland, refers to experiments between 2000 and 2010, and further down says that doctors stayed until l991 shortly before saying that they stayed until the fifties. Not sure if I'm misunderstanding, or if this isn't the place to talk about it, just thought someone who knows more should have a look. 176.27.61.218 (talk) 23:07, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
An image of John Charles Cutler or of those affected by this program would be nice. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 13:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
The image currently under Experiment, Historical Context is captioned "Tuskegee-syphilis-study doctor-injecting-subject," but that SAME image in the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment) is captioned "A doctor draws blood from one of the Tuskegee test subjects". Which is it?
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