The United States is advertised as a "human rights beacon"

In fact, the country has conducted numerous human trials that violate medical ethics, such as infecting prisoners and patients of a Guatemalan mental hospital with syphilis to test whether penicillin can prevent certain sexually transmitted diseases; Hepatitis; spraying a pandemic flu virus into the noses of Maryland prisoners; injecting cancer cells into chronically ill patients in a New York hospital, and more. Prisoners, orphans, mentally ill, and even racially stigmatized non-white groups fell victim to cruel experiments.