Amused
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Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
Originally posted by: Amused
Gave them STDs, or took blacks who already had STDs and monitored their disease instead of treating it to see the outcome?
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.?
Was it bad? Yes. However, no one gave blacks STDs.
And no one put crack into black communities with the intention of bringing them down.
I have seen SO much BS propaganda from you in this thread. You need to take a critical look at the urban legends you hear from your so-called leaders.
Actually, they were not necessarily in late-stage syphilus. The purpose of the experiment was to look at the life-cycle of the disease. When the study started, there wasn't really anything wrong with this: syphilus was untreatable anyway. The study, in theory, could have lead to better understanding of the disease, and even treatments.
However, long before the ast patients died, the cure was found, and many of the people in the study could have been saved years of suffering. "In the interests of science" and no doubt bolstered by the low social status of the subjects, it was decided to let the study run its course. This was totally indefensible (eventually, the remaining survivors were treated, when the cover on the study was blown).
Yeah, you're right. It was a full cycle experiment. But the point stands: The US government did NOT infect them with syphilis
