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A much longer and even more chilling case is that of the so-called Tuskegee Experiment. In 1972, the Associated Press reported that for 40 years the United States Public Health Service (PHS) in Tuskegee, Alabama, had deliberately denied treatment to 399 Black men afflicted with syphilis in order to...
The Tuskegee Study had nothing to do with treatment. No new drugs were tested; neither was any effort made to establish the efficacy of old forms of treatment. It was a non-therapeutic experiment, aimed at compiling data on the effects of the spontaneous evolution of syphilis on Black males...
Starting in 1932, researchers sought out subjects for the test; the overwhelming majority of the men were poor and illiterate. The doctors told them only that they had "bad blood," for which they would be given drugs from time to time. They were given placebos. No one was told he...
Long after penicillin became generally available as a cure for syphilis in 1953, the men were still denied treatment and allowed slowly to die. If the press had not brought the case to light in 1972, the experiment would have continued. Even after the story broke, federal officials argued for...
That political "exposé" was the work of Nice's neo-Gaullist mayor, Jacques Médecin, who, like the rest of France's leading politicians, has been furiously campaigning for the municipal elections that will be held on March 6 and 13. The vote is a local...