~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SANDY SANDFORT Reply to: ssandfort@attmail.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C'punks, Nobody wrote: You know, this radiation experiment reminds me of another incident. A group of African-American men were injected, without their knowledge or consent, with live syphilis spirochaetes, and studied for a number of years. No attempt at therapy was ever attempted, as I recall, for these individuals. . . . Actually, this is wrong on two counts. One, the men were not injected with syphilis; they had already contracted it when they went into the program. Two, in most cases, they *were* given therapy. What was withheld was penicillin. The subjects who were treated, were given relatively ineffective and dangerous mercury therapies. Not as bad as Nobody said, but more than bad enough. As an aside, I was watching a documentary on this sad chapter of American history and they interview the guy who blew the whistle on the study. He was a San Franciscan I have known for several years. In all that time, I thought he was just another Second Amendment, gun nut, fellow traveller. You know, you never know. S a n d y

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