Normal Exposure

A government doctor spent two years giving people a disease on purpose, and wrote down every detail himself. The file only surfaced once he was safely dead.

In 1946, a doctor employed by the United States government traveled to Guatemala to give people syphilis on purpose.

His name was John Cutler. He worked for the Public Health Service, the same service that would later run the study at Tuskegee, and for two years he and his team infected soldiers, prisoners, orphans, and patients in a psychiatric hospital…