The U.S. Doctor Who Infected 1,300 Guatemalan Patients With STDs
In the 1940s, a young American doctor went to Guatemala to do medical experiments. He was funded by the venerable U.S. National Institutes of Health, but he did not make anyone healthy. Instead, he deliberately exposed 1,300 people to sexually transmitted diseases. Dr. John C. Cutler was no mad scientist. His experiments exposing prostitutes, prisoners…