Wave the banners, brandish the flag, sing America The Beautiful, and The Star Spangled Banner. Be proud to be an American, for God and Country. Stand tall and keep America's dark and filthy secrets hidden under the rug and locked behind classified files. America's past actions are often times as cruel and hideous as those actions carried out by countries that we have often criticized and damned. Us government doctors have in the past used inmates and mentally ill patients as guinea pigs carrying out experiments unbeknown to the people. The experiments sound as if they were taken out of films displaying mad doctors. Hepatitis given to mental patients, pandemic flu virus shot up the noses of prisoners, including injecting cancer cells into chronically ill patients.
Even though these experiments were done from 40- 80 years ago, and was only realized that these outrageous actions had been done when the US government apologized for injecting syphilis into prisoners and mental patients 65 years ago. Other information gathered found that the government admitted they had given infections to healthy people as well.
Some doctors said that they had done the experiments for life saving research while many said they had done the experiments out of curiosity. Either way in my opinion the experiments were wrong. The US condemned the Nazis for what the Allied forces found in and around the Concentration camps in Germany during WWII.

Only to be part of some of the same twisted experiments. Should it make a difference which country carries out these experiments to whether it is talked about or supported? I don't think so. As a result from the horrible human experiments that were found in Germany, and the trials of the German doctors who participated in these horrific acts the "Nuremberg Code, was formed" which is a set of international rules to protect human test subjects. Many U.S. doctors ignored them, arguing they applied to Nazi atrocities and not to American medicine.

This was not the end of experiments they continued, on mentally retarded children, poor blacks, prisoners and our men in the Army. It was not until the 70's when the public really realized what was happening to people through Congressional hearings involving drug companies and then the public cried out against the experiments. The experiments stopped using federal prisoners but the drug companies than moved to other countries where the laws were null and people would do any thing for a bit of money because they were so poor.

Then there were incidents where US doctors failed to give pregnant woman with HIV In Uganda a drug AZT which would keep their baby from getting HIV, US health officials argued that they needed to get answers about the usage of AZT in poor developing countries.

Pfizier did a study with children who had meningitis in Nigeria, they gave the children Trovan, but Pfizier knew that the drug was ineffective and the result 11 children died. between 40 and 65 percent of clinical studies of federally regulated medical products were done in other countries in 2008. U.S. regulators inspected fewer than 1 percent of these sites.

The US is just as cruel and unjust as many of the developing and dictator run countries across the globe. Just because we live In the US does not make us immune to horrific acts against the citizens by our government and its partnership of corporations because after all is said and done, the bottom line is profit and money  not the good and welfare of the citizens. When the vast majority of these experiment were being done the America people believed in the life they seen portrayed on Leave It to Beaver and the Ozzie and Harriet show. Oh what a shame the facade TV was portraying to the American people. So the next time you need a drug for some ailment, it may cross your mind where and who was this drug experimented on and is it really as safe as they say.