Remembering the Tuskegee experiment: when rural Alabama Black men were intentionally exposed to syphilis with no treatment
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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