This surgeon general of the United States of America was involved in the horrible experiments that killed Black people for 50 years in the Tuskegee experiments. Thank goodness there’s no corruption today and everybody is honest and you can trust the government. 😹😭😭😹 pic.twitter.com/8hUmSb31LU
— Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News (@unhealthytruth) July 27, 2022
Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., whose name graces the main
building of the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, has
also been called an architect of the syphilis experiments on black men and women in
Tuskegee, Ala. While he was surgeon general, he was also aware that U.S. public
health researchers were intentionally infecting with syphilis Guatemalan people
who were mentally ill or in prison, in the name of research.
The Tuskegee
Experiment wasn't the only experiment that Parran was involved with.
There was also the Guatemalan syphilis. experiments, 1946-1948, a full 4 to 6 years after penicillin was manufactured. Oh,
my God.
Daniel
Jacobson, a graduate student in social work and the president of the Latin
American Graduate Organization of Students at Pitt, said Parran’s role in
dehumanizing Latinos through the Guatemala syphilis experiments should not be
lost in the debate.
Jacobson
said participants in those experiments were devalued and even preyed upon. The
United States apologized to Guatemala for the episode in
2010, but it wasn’t until the following year that Parran’s role in the tests
received wide attention.
“This is
a marginalized group,” Jacobson said, referring to the people used in the
Guatemala experiments. “No one is going to care about these people.”
Apparently, penicillin was quite effective at treating syphilis.
