tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864364.post5031667721988499874..comments2024-03-26T09:45:58.528-04:00Comments on Thoughts About K4D: John Cutler and the Guatemala Syphilis Research ProgramUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864364.post-67201307909776561602010-10-03T05:41:01.055-04:002010-10-03T05:41:01.055-04:00Reverby in her paper suggests that Cutler was guil...Reverby in her paper suggests that Cutler was guilty of racism in suggesting that native Americans might show differing blood serum responses to syphilis infection than European Americans.<br /><br />Actually, it is well established that different population groups show differing responses to the same disease. Think of how lethal diseases from the Eurasian region such as measles, mumps and flu John Dalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363204598363726098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3864364.post-76210904863645206372010-10-03T05:33:18.899-04:002010-10-03T05:33:18.899-04:00Before you think too badly of John Cutler for his ...Before you think too badly of John Cutler for his work in Guatemala in the 1940s, recall some other people who had what we would now see as ethical lapses. Thomas Jefferson not only owned slaves, but apparently fathered a child by one of those slaves. Abraham Lincoln thought Africans congenitally inferior to Europeans, and freed the slaves in the Emancipation Proclamation only in areas still John Dalyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05363204598363726098noreply@blogger.com