Never forget on July 25, 1972, the outing of the Tuskegee Experiment occurred in the United States. What was the Tuskegee Experiment? Face2Face Africa reports: The Tuskegee Experiment was a 40-year research project that studied the effects of the disease syphilis when left untreated. Black rural farm workers were the subjects of the U.S. government-sponsored study and were kept in the dark as they were being left to suffer. A whistleblower revealed the unethical and morally unjust aims of the study, after he went to the press on this day in 1972. ... The Public Health Service neglected to tell the men they were infected, and kept the news hidden. Even in the 1940s when penicillin was proven to be a sound treatment for syphilis, they were still left untreated. The experiment is understood to be one of the most-disgraceful incidents of American history. Consequently, many Black Americans remain suspicious of the medical community even though it has been decades since this major offense happened. Watch a video on it here:
Posted on: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 22:00:01 +0000
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