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In a case that revealed the exploitation of a Black woman beginning in the 1950s and extending for 70 years, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. in 2023 settled a lawsuit that the estate of Henrietta Lacks had filed against the biotech firm for its role in what the lawsuit called “a racially unjust …
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Bob RoehrWashington, DCbobroehr{at}aol.comUC Law San FranciscoIn 1965 Peter Buxtun had just started working as a contact tracer with the Public Health Service (PHS) in San Francisco when he overheard colleagues talking about a syphilis study. Wanting to learn more, he called the PHS office in …
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is a shameful reminder of what science without ethics can lead to. Starting in the early 1930s, this experiment conducted by the Public Health Service (PHS), the precursor federal public health agency to today’s CDC, deliberately withheld life-saving therapy against …
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Peter Buxtun, who has died aged 86, was the whistleblower who exposed America’s most infamous medical research scandal, a 40-year federal experiment conducted on 399 black men with syphilis to see what would happen if the disease were left untreated.“The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the …
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In the early 1960s, Peter Buxtun was tracing sexually transmitted infections for the U.S. Public Health Service in San Francisco when he wandered into the coffee room of his clinic. There he heard an older PHS officer talking about a study begun 30 years before. What he heard alarmed him: Working …
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Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea pigs, died May 18 at a memory-care center in Rocklin, Calif. He was 86. The cause was complications from …
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Peter Buxtun, who blew the lid off the so-called Tuskegee study in which the U.S. government withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama over decades in a macabre and racist experiment, has died.He was 86. His cause of death was Alzheimer’s disease, said his attorney …
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By MIKE STOBBENEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86.Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, …
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Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was 86.Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, according to his …
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The Pew Research Center has revised a report after it received criticism for saying a majority of Black Americans believe “racial conspiracy theories” about U.S. institutions. In the report released June 10 titled “Most Black Americans Believe Racial Conspiracy Theories About U.S. Institutions,” …
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