Terrifying
It's not quite as bad as, say, the Tuskagee syphilis experiment, but if this is true it might be right up there. Link foudn via Jer, who has an excellent post up discussing the issues around this story (mainly, that we can't seem to find it elswhere). I will note two things about the possible veracity of this one, though:
1. BBC tends to have better coverage of AIDS-related issues, period. Whether in North America or Asia or Africa or Europe, etc.
2. At the bottom of the news story, there's a blurb saying "Guinea Pig Kids was broadcast on Tuesday, 30 November, 2004, at 1930 GMT on BBC Two (UK)". So they feel confident enough in the truth of this to make a special report on it. That proves nothing, but is certainly good circumstantial evidence (assuming you trust the BBC, which I mostly do).
1. BBC tends to have better coverage of AIDS-related issues, period. Whether in North America or Asia or Africa or Europe, etc.
2. At the bottom of the news story, there's a blurb saying "Guinea Pig Kids was broadcast on Tuesday, 30 November, 2004, at 1930 GMT on BBC Two (UK)". So they feel confident enough in the truth of this to make a special report on it. That proves nothing, but is certainly good circumstantial evidence (assuming you trust the BBC, which I mostly do).
