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Dozens of prisoner experiments unearthed, as President’s bioethics commission meets
Revelations that US government researchers gave syphilis to hundreds of Guatemalan prisoners in the 1940s prompted a formal apology last year, as well as a President’s bioethics commission meeting that starts today. But it turns out that the US government has more skeletons in its closet.
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