[...]
Jacklyn Hoerger's job was to treat children with HIV at a New York children's home.
But nobody had told her that the drugs she was administering were experimental and highly toxic.
"We were told that if they were vomiting, if they lost their ability to walk, if they were having diarrhoea, if they were dying, then all of this was because of their HIV infection."
In fact it was the drugs that were making the children ill and the children had been enrolled on the secret trials without their relatives' or guardians' knowledge.
As Jacklyn would later discover, those who tried to take the children off the drugs risked losing them into care.
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When I first heard the story of the "guinea pig kids", I instinctively refused to believe that it could be happening in any civilised country, particularly the United States, where the propensity for legal action normally ensures a high level of protection.
But that, as I was to discover, was central to the choice of location and subjects, because to be free in New York City, you need money.
It's amazing to me that people can be so ignorant about the U.S. government.
Check this link for a list of U.S. government experiments on unwitting citizens. It's a long list with a long tradition.
The government even has agreed to paying off victims after the truth comes out.
Here's a book: 
How about this one:
Some things are too creepy, too sickening, to accept. Even when you have precedents.
Nothing is too bizarre to be real.
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