I am glad to be here in Tuskeege. Y'all had a syphilis problem

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

here, and the US Government was glad to help out with that. Yall got airmen? I was a pilot. I know pilots. I can see bad pilots when I see them on TV.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Pointy eared evil little leprechan. n/t

[SPKrazy]

2. His Ears Are Pretty Pointed.

and the hair covers his horns

[0007]

3. Was it in Tuskeege that the government did those syphilis

experiments on the blacks and then lied about it?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. ummm, yeah

that was my point

[0007]

5. That was a good point. But how people in today's world would

know that fact? How many years ago was it, fifty or more?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. Assholia Obscurotum? Yeah, that's me!

You got it.

[harlinchi]

7. I think many remember or have read of the incident, which only ended...

... in 1972! Having learned of the atrocious, inhuman behavior, I for one cannot forget.


The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

The United States government did something that was wrong—deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. It was an outrage to our commitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens. . . . clearly racist.
—President Clinton's apology for the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to the eight remaining survivors, May 16, 1997

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,”1 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.”...