Next class tell me what this is about and whether it's news or history?

- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -

"It's ironic -- no, it's worse than that, it's appalling -- that, at the same time as the United States was prosecuting Nazi doctors for crimes against humanity, the U.S. government was supporting research that placed human subjects at enormous risk."
- DR. MARK SIEGLER, of the Maclean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, on a
program in the late 1940's to deliberately infect
Guatemalans with venereal diseases, in a test of penicillin.