Tuskegee's Truths

Between 1932 and 1972, approximately six hundred African American men in Alabama served as unwitting guinea pigs in what is now considered one of the worst examples of arrogance, racism, and duplicity in American medical research — the Tuskegee syphilis study. Told they were being treated for “bad blood,” the nearly four hundred men with late-stage syphilis and two hundred disease-free men who ser...