**The Nuremberg Doctor Trials First brought to light the experiments conducted by the Nazis during World War II on prisoners of war . The outcome of these trials was the Nuremberg Code of Ethics for Medical research which is strictly advocated in the US .
(SAN FRANCISCO) - In an Oct. 1, statement, the U.S. government acknowledged that between 1946 and 1948, U.S. Public Health Service physicians deliberately infected at least 696 Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea without their knowledge or consent to study the effect of venereal disease. **
**Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius formally apologized for the “abhorrent” and “clearly unethical” medical experiments. **
And on October 2, President Barack Obama apologized to his Guatemalan counterpart and vowed that all human medical studies conducted today will be held to exacting U.S. and international legal and ethical standards.
**In the past, the U.S. conducted abusive human medical experiments and then criticized the Nazis for their similar experiments. Today, the U.S. tortures prisoners at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib and has others do it by proxy under our rendition program and then criticizes other countries for their human rights abuses.
Isn’t there a strong odor of mendacity in the air…
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