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WAS THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT REALLY NECESSARY?

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WAS THE TUSKEGEE SYPHILIS EXPERIMENT REALLY NECESSARY?


[+] serious ballot by RunsWithScissors
ACTIVE Thu Mar 27, 08 - Tue Dec 21, 10

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,” their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all.

The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”

The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites —the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain.

It took almost forty years before someone involved in the study took a hard and honest look at the end results, reporting that “nothing learned will prevent, find, or cure a single case of infectious syphilis or bring us closer to our basic mission of controlling venereal disease in the United States.”

When the experiment was brought to the attention of the media in 1972, news anchor Harry Reasoner described it as an experiment that “used human beings as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study of how long it takes syphilis to kill someone.”

One of the most chilling aspects of the experiment was how zealously the PHS kept these men from receiving treatment. When several nationwide campaigns to eradicate venereal disease came to Macon County, the men were prevented from participating. Even when penicillin —the first real cure for syphilis— was discovered in the 1940s, the Tuskegee men were deliberately denied the medication.

By the end of the experiment, 28 of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis.

How horrible!
I've never heard of this
Our government is out of control
These experiments were necessary
Of course NOT


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You can read the rest of the article here:
http://www.tuskegee.edu/Global/Story.asp?s=1207586
by RunsWithScissors on Thu Mar 27, 08 6:43pm [+]

Voted : How horrible!
Strange that such things really happened.
by skylab on Thu Mar 27, 08 6:44pm [+]

Voted : Our government is out of control
Undue secrecy leads to abuses and the perpetraitors usually go unpunished, this is probably just the tip of an iceberg when it comes to past (and present) abuses by those who deem themselves to be "above" the law.
by thesoothsayer on Thu Mar 27, 08 7:02pm [+]

Voted : Our government is out of control
and we harp about josef mengele.

those researches should have been brought under crimes against humanity.

don't think for a moment if this is an isolated case. they are still being conducted.

how about radiological research done with kindergarteners, they fed kids nuclear wastes.
by LCD on Thu Mar 27, 08 7:31pm [+]

Voted : How horrible!
This is a primary reason why many Blacks don't trust the health-care system.
by Truthseeker013 on Fri Mar 28, 08 4:12am [+]

Voted : How horrible!
Sounds like Madonna's 1989 world tour.
by _Beelzebubba on Fri Mar 28, 08 6:30am [+]

Voted : Of course NOT
It's one of the many atrocities that the American government has committed towards the American people. It was not necessary.
by R_T_L_ on Sat Mar 29, 08 10:08am [+]

Voted : Of course NOT
Who does this to a person or persons and thinks it's okay?
by lowerclassbrats on Sat Mar 29, 08 10:10pm [+]

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