Ethical evasion or happenstance and hubris? The U.S. Public Health Service STD Inoculation Study.
It's tempting to explain the Guatemala STD inoculation study as an attempt to evade the strictures of U.S research ethics. In fact, the researchers appear to have had benign reasons for going abroad. Only after they reached Guatemala did the study fly out of control.
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