[hamburgerwah]

I don't see why this should come as a surprise. The government poisoned liquor during prohibition, injected plutonium into unwitting pregnant women, gave innocent people syphilis while giving them fake treatments to see how it killed them (and just for the heck of it because the victims were black), and on and on.

[jazzyjackson]

Don’t forget that the CIA had to pinky swear not to use vaccine campaigns as cover for spy operations (anymore).

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/20/314231260...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27489045

[actually_a_dog]

Yep, and, thanks to that little fiasco, we lost significant ground in trying to eradicate polio worldwide.