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64: The Racist Syphilis Experiment
Episode 64

64: The Racist Syphilis Experiment

Sci Guys

July 6, 20201h 23m

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Show Notes

What happens when you mix America’s Public Health Service with 399 men with untreated syphilis? Nothing, for 40 years. That’s right, America secretly ran a study on black men just to see why would happen if they didn’t treat their deadly and transmissible disease.

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References and Further Reading 
  1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/16/youve-got-bad-blood-the-horror-of-the-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/
  2. https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study
  3. https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html
  4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4568718/
  5. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vKFYAtcLAxgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
  6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607737/
  7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44448396?seq=1
  8. https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/23029
  9. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/syphilis/
  10. https://www.britannica.com/science/syphilis

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