Johns Hopkins, Bristol-Myers Face $1 Billion Suit For Infecting Guatemalan Hookers With Syphilis

In the mid-1940s, a U.S. government research team led by Dr. John Cutler intentionally infected approximately 1,500 healthy Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in an experiment to test the effectiveness of penicillin on STDs. This video unpacks the power dynamics that prompted the U.S. to conduct the experiment in Guatemala, a developing country under significant political pressure from the U.S. The video also examines the power disparities between the American researchers and the Guatemalan victims who were among the most vulnerable populations, including prisoners, psychiatric patients, drafted soldiers, orphans, and prostitutes. The researchers’ racial bias against the Guatemalan victims led to serious ethical violations—the victims were not informed and did not provide consent. The Guatemalan victims tried to sue the U.S. government in 2011 under the Federal Tort Claims Act, but sovereign immunity shielded the Government from liability. In 2015, the victims sued Johns Hopkins, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, which participated in or funded for the experiment. They have not yet received any reparations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwTwefKjh1s
 https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-19/johns
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828982/
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala_syphilis_experiment