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    I was five years old when AP broke the story and the experiment ended.

    “I’m seated in this dinky coffee room,” Buxtun recently recounted to me, “and I hear several colleagues talking about an ill, insane man who was taken by his family to see a doctor outside of Tuskegee, Alabama. The doctor determined the man had syphilis and gave him a shot of penicillin. To everyone’s shock, however, the doctor was soon called on the carpet by physicians for the Communicable Disease Center (known today as the Centers for Disease Control) and reprimanded. They said he had ‘ruined their study’ and ‘jogged their statistics.’”



    Buxtun was dumbfounded. Here he was a CDC outreach worker—a contact tracer in today’s parlance—assigned to find gay and straight men with venereal diseases and ensure that they received treatment. He was shocked to learn that CDC officials were berating physicians in Alabama for giving ill men the medicine they needed. “I thought it very bizarre,” Buxtun recalled. “I didn’t understand what they were doing. Why was this outside doctor jumped on by Tuskegee physicians? It made no sense.”



    Buxtun peppered his colleagues with questions, but few had answers. The next day Buxtun phoned CDC headquarters and asked what was going on in Tuskegee? “They told me they had files on it and I said send me everything you have. I told them I’d like to know what’s going on.” In a matter of days, he received “a fat envelope filled with information about round-ups” involving hundreds of locals—unschooled Black sharecroppers in Macon County, Alabama, who had syphilis. Surprisingly, they weren’t being treated.



    “I was aghast,” said Buxtun. “What the do they think they’re doing? I’m in San Francisco working hard to fight the spread of syphilis and they’re not treating people? My job was to track down those spreading syphilis and gonorrhea and get them a shot of penicillin. I was going into terrible neighborhoods, making sure carriers got medication, and in Tuskegee they’re not even treating men they know are sick. I couldn’t understand it.”
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    The experiment, called the Tuskegee Study began in 1932 with about 600 black men mostly poor and uneducated, from Tuskegee, Ala., an area that had the highest syphilis rate in the nation at the time.

    One-third of the group was free of syphilis; two-thirds showed evidence of the disease. In the syphilitic group, half were given the best treatment known at the time, but the other half, about 200 men, received no treatment at all for syphilis, PHS officials say.

    As incentives to enter the program, the men were promised free transportation to and from hospitals, free hot lunches, free medicine for any disease other than syphilis and free burial after autopsies were performed.
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    The Tuskegee Study began 10 years before penicillin was discovered to be a cure for syphilis and 15 years before the drug became widely available. Yet, even after penicillin became common, and while its use probably could have helped or saved a number of the experiment subjects, the drug was denied them, Dr. J.D. Millar says.

    He is chief of the venereal disease branch of the PHS’s Center for Disease Control in Atlanta and is now in charge of what remains of the Tuskegee Study. Dr. Millar said in an interview that he has serious doubts about the program.

    “I think a definite serious moral problem existed when the study was undertaken, a more serious moral problem was overlooked in the post-war years when penicillin became available but was not given to these men and a moral problem still exists,” Dr. Millar said.

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    It's 50 years later

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    debunked

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    Trump s circling the wagons again

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    It's 50 years later
    within my lifetime, did you have a point?

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    Trump s circling the wagons again
    What's your conspiracy theory here, Qhump?

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    within my lifetime, did you have a point?
    Did you?

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    Most people, when bored with a topic, simply ignore it and move on with their lives.

    Clearly, you feel attacked.

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    Most people, when bored with a topic, simply ignore it and move on with their lives.

    Clearly, you feel attacked.
    Would Adam Lambert ignore it or would he feel attacked?

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    Most people, when bored with a topic, simply ignore it and move on with their lives.

    Clearly, you feel attacked.
    And here you are..

    So what is OP claiming exactly?

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    Cry to the racist dems who are still experimenting on "POC" to this day.

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    tHe CoNfEdErAcY!

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    Cry to the racist dems who are still experimenting on "POC" to this day.
    Testify!

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    Cry to the racist dems who are still experimenting on "POC" to this day.
    Everybody gets their free vaccine today. Thank you Brandon.

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    Everybody gets their free vaccine today. Thank you Brandon.
    Lmao I guess you should be thanking your daddy Trump tbh.

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    Lmao I guess you should be thanking your daddy Trump tbh.
    Brandon made it available to everyone, paid for by the US government. Thank you Brandon

    As far a the OP, I wasn't even alive 50 years ago, tbh.

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    Brandon made it available to everyone, paid for by the US government. Thank you Brandon

    As far a the OP, I wasn't even alive 50 years ago, tbh.
    Thank your daddy Trump for the vaccine ya Trumper!

    At the end of the day Trump made it available before all the others. He's your daddy!

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    Calf tats clearly gives a ha ha lol!!!!!

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    Everybody gets their free vaccine today. Thank you Brandon.
    You have to forgive joey for not knowing about the Tuskegee Study.

    It was covered in every 12th grade history class in US and, well, you know joey's education story

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    They say blacks don't like to get vaccinated because of muh Tuskegee

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    Thank your daddy Trump for the vaccine ya Trumper!

    At the end of the day Trump made it available before all the others. He's your daddy!
    For my age group, I couldn't get a vaccine until we were well under Brandon's mighty administration... thank you Brandon.

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    For my age group, I couldn't get a vaccine until we were well under Brandon's mighty administration... thank you Brandon.
    Doesn't matter when or who's in the WH, Trump is still your daddy and you got the Trump juice in yo veins!

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