guatemala with the germs that cause venereal disease with gonorrhea and syphilis. they injected it in to all the arts parts of their bodies, including their spine. this today led to an apology. this was discovered by an academic named susan weatherby when she was going through archives that were completely hidden and forgotten. and today, just now, secretaries hillary clinton and kathleen sebelius issued a statement apologizing on behalf of the u.s. government for this thing that happened more than 40 years ago and saying even more steps will be taken to see it doesn't happen again. it inevitably raises questions with the syphilis experiment where hundreds of african-american men were told they were being treated for syphilis, but, in fact, treatment was withheld from them. this is different in the sense that it was carried out in a different country, but by some of the same group of people who were studied venereal diseases