grinninfoole

Ok, hands up if you have a sneaking nostalgia for the Tuskegee experiments. You remember, they let dozens of black men with syphilis go for decades without treatment (while telling them they were providing treatment), just to see what would happen to them as the disease progressed. It led to laws and regulations about informed consent, patient disclosure, etc.

Well, apparently, some folks in New York City decided that the didn't want the good ole boys down south to have all the fun, so the upped the ante by experimenting with AIDS drugs in kids. The BBC has a heartwarming story about it here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm