John Charles Cutler

John Charles Cutler ( Cleveland , 29 of June of 1915 - Pittsburgh , 8 of February of 2003 ) was a surgeon American best known for leading a research program on sexually transmitted infections in the Public Health Service of the United States .

The Mengele American

As director of the US national program, Dr. Cutler conducted a series of controversial medical experiments. The most known are:

• The experiments on syphilis in Guatemala (1946-1948) - syphilis was inoculated to about 1300 men, women and children; Y
• The Tuskegee experiment (1932-1972) - for 40 years, 400 black families in the town of Macon (Alabama, southern United States), who were already sick with syphilis, were kept cheating, providing placebos instead of treatment- . ¹

Legacy

In 2010, US President Barak Obama commissioned the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethics to analyze what happened between 1946 and 1948 in Guatemala . The commission came to the conclusion that Cutler and the other investigators knew they were violating ethical standards:

There was a clear and deliberate effort to deceive the subjects of the experiments, the scientific community and the community at large.

The commission found that Dr. Cutler exposed more than 1,300 individuals - men, women and children - to venereal diseases, through direct contact with infected persons or inoculation, but only treated 700 people, leaving the Rest, resulting in the death of 83 people ²

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