In conclusion:

Under the Trump/RFK regime, -we- are the "shithole country."

How deeply shameful.

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In funding this "trial", the U.S. government turns a blind eye on the lessons it should have learned from history.

Unethical experimentation on African infants may satisfy RFKJr's kooky beliefs—but it will be cited for generations as an example of the treachery of the United States government. 4/

Bioethics textbooks discuss the Tuskegee experiment, in which the U.S. government withheld well-known, life-saving antibiotic treatment from hundreds of black men suffering from syphilis, JUST TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WITHOUT TREATMENT. The "study" was terminated in 1972, after a press leak. 3/

This study flagrantly violates the fundamental principle of CLINICAL EQUIPOISE in research ethics. That principle simply states that you cannot ethically withhold treatments ALREADY DEFINITIVELY KNOWN TO BE BENEFICIAL from a research subject, solely for the sake of science. 2/

"So, I was having some more pain than usual, it was keeping me up, so I woke up my wife for some advice—she's an ICU doc—and next thing I knew, I was intubated..."

Acquired spinal atresia of the GOP.
Gross.

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