Friday, October 01, 2010

Would calipers or a straight ruler be better for making this determination?

Today I learned that in the 1940s U.S. scientists examined the foreskins of Guatemalan men interned in an asylum in that country.  They needed to find men with foreskins of moderate length—whatever that may be—for their syphilis infection experiments.  I'm not sure if I can say today was a good day.

Please read The Whole Thing.  It is short and goes fast and is packed with crazy-ass, fucked-up shit.

4 Comments:

Substance McGravitas said...

You can get foreskins in custom sizes now, so BRING ON THE MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS!

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

Butt, we're exceptional!

Wolverines! and it's not war crimes when we do it, also.
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Another Kiwi said...

A lot of those Experiment subjects were foreigners and probably should have been grateful.

Substance McGravitas said...

It's pretty impressive how unrepentant the guy who did the study was.