Under the guise of receiving free health care from the federal government of the United States, a syphilis study was conducted by the U.S.
Public Health Services at Tuskegee from 1932-1972 on unsuspecting African American men. The purpose of the study really was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis.
These men suffered for 40 years for no reason but the “scientific value” of their health. Please remember there was a perfectly good treatment for syphilis at the time, but the African American men were denied treatment for the sake of research.
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