Fear God (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

FEAR GOD

Revelation 14: ⁷ And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, ⁷Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. ⁸And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.⁸And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. ⁹And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, ¹⁰The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: ¹¹And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. ¹²Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Ecclesiastes 12:¹³ Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.¹⁴For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Syphilis Experiment Is Revealed, Prompting U.S. Apology to Guatemala - NYTimes.com

Syphilis experiments in Guatemala

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The syphilis experiments in Guatemala were U.S. sponsored human experiments conducted in the 1940s with the approval of Guatemalan health officials. In Guatemala, from 1946 to 1948, doctors infected soldiers, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, without the informed consent of the subjects and then treated them with antibiotics. In 2010 the US formally apologized to Guatemala for conducting these experiments.

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[edit] Experiments

The experiments were led by United States Public Health Service physician John Charles Cutler, who later took part in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.^[1] The information was uncovered by Susan Mokotoff Reverby of Wellesley College who found the documents in 2005 while researching the Tuskegee syphilis study. She shared her findings with United States government officials. The research was done with the approval of the Guatemalan government of the time.^[2] There were 696 subjects in total. While the Tuskegee experiment followed the natural progression of syphilis, in Guatemala doctors infected people with the disease. The goal of the study seems to have been to determine the effect of penicillin in the prevention and treatment of venereal diseases. The researchers paid prostitutes infected with syphilis to have sex with prisoners and some subjects were infected by directly inoculating them with the bacterium. When the subjects contracted the disease they were given antibiotics though it is unclear if all infected parties were cured.^[3] Francis Collins, the current Director of National Institutes of Health, called the experiments "a dark chapter in history of medicine" and commented that modern rules absolutely prohibit conducting human subject research without informed consent.^[3]

[edit] Apology

In October 2010, the U.S. government formally apologized and announced that there was no statute of limitations for the violation of human rights in that medical research.^[4]^[5] In a joint statement Hillary Clinton and Kathleen Sebelius said "Although these events occurred more than 64 years ago, we are outraged that such reprehensible research could have occurred under the guise of public health. We deeply regret that it happened, and we apologize to all the individuals who were affected by such abhorrent research practices. The conduct exhibited during the study does not represent the values of the US, or our commitment to human dignity and great respect for the people of Guatemala". Human rights activists called for subjects' families to be compensated.^[1] President Barack Obama apologized to President Álvaro Colom who had called these experiments "a crime against humanity".^[6]
In addition, the US government asked the Institute of Medicine to conduct a review of these experiments. Also, a presidential bioethics commission will ask a panel of international experts to review the current state of medical research on humans around the world and ensure that such incidents cannot be repeated.