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It didn't take very long to refute CF's core assertion, that the subjects were deliberately infected as part of the study. According to my quick internet research, the 399 study participants already had syphilis.
Making it OK to experiment on blacks?
A deeply shameful part of this nations history. Every bit as bad as the official approval of torture by the last administration. However, the nation did not know of this until 1972. Had it become public knowledge sooner, it would have been stopped sooner. I am sure that if Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, or Nixon had known the specifics of this, they would have put an end to it.
NPR : Remembering the Tuskegee Experiment
By then, dozens of the men had died, and many wives and children had been infected. In 1973, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a class-action lawsuit. A $9 million settlement was divided among the study's participants. Free health care was given to the men who were still living, and to infected wives, widows and children.
But it wasn't until 1997 that the government formally apologized for the unethical study. President Clinton delivered the apology, saying what the government had done was deeply, profoundly and morally wrong:
"To the survivors, to the wives and family members, the children and the grandchildren, I say what you know: No power on Earth can give you back the lives lost, the pain suffered, the years of internal torment and anguish.
"What was done cannot be undone. But we can end the silence. We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye and finally say, on behalf of the American people: what the United States government did was shameful.
"And I am sorry."
OK,
It didn't take very long to refute CF's core assertion, that the subjects were deliberately infected as part of the study. According to my quick internet research, the 399 study participants already had syphilis.
Making it OK to experiment on blacks?
Nice backpedal.
I didn't say anything about it being OK. I said that you were lying when you said the experiments involved infecting black men with syphilis without their consent.
If you want to make a case for something, it's highly recommended that you don't start your hypothesis with a bald-faced lie. It kind of undermines everything that follows, legitimate or otherwise.
OK,
It didn't take very long to refute CF's core assertion, that the subjects were deliberately infected as part of the study. According to my quick internet research, the 399 study participants already had syphilis.
Making it OK to experiment on blacks?
Nice backpedal.
I didn't say anything about it being OK. I said that you were lying when you said the experiments involved infecting black men with syphilis without their consent.
If you want to make a case for something, it's highly recommended that you don't start your hypothesis with a bald-faced lie. It kind of undermines everything that follows, legitimate or otherwise.
Using Human Beings as Laboratory Animals
The true nature of the experiment had to be kept from the subjects to ensure their cooperation. The sharecroppers' grossly disadvantaged lot in life made them easy to manipulate. Pleased at the prospect of free medical care —almost none of them had ever seen a doctor before— these unsophisticated and trusting men became the pawns in what James Jones, author of the excellent history on the subject, Bad Blood, identified as “the longest non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.”
The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites —the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain.
Er...Think hard again now Frank.Was this part of the official platform of the Democratic Party?
Obvious conspiracy here.........Did you stay up all night to come up with this one Frank?
The Experiments started in 1932 only after the Dem swept into power and ran PHS.
You figure it out yet FranK?Er...Think hard again now Frank.Was this part of the official platform of the Democratic Party?
Obvious conspiracy here.........Did you stay up all night to come up with this one Frank?
The Experiments started in 1932 only after the Dem swept into power and ran PHS.
Who was president in 1932?
why would anyone waste actual energy responding to something as stupid as that?
I find things get the response they deserve.
See. Ol' Frank reserves the right to lie. You suppose maybe he works for Fox?
Making it OK to experiment on blacks?
Nice backpedal.
I didn't say anything about it being OK. I said that you were lying when you said the experiments involved infecting black men with syphilis without their consent.
If you want to make a case for something, it's highly recommended that you don't start your hypothesis with a bald-faced lie. It kind of undermines everything that follows, legitimate or otherwise.
It involved leaving them untreated. Distinction without a difference
why would anyone waste actual energy responding to something as stupid as that?
I find things get the response they deserve.
Point out the lies, Jillian, because your bland and insulting comments otherwise serve no purpose, nor do they inform anyone of anything.
These people were treated like animals, there is no doubt about that.
Just makes one yearn for a free government health care system don't it?
Using Human Beings as Laboratory Animals
The true nature of the experiment had to be kept from the subjects to ensure their cooperation. The sharecroppers' grossly disadvantaged lot in life made them easy to manipulate. Pleased at the prospect of free medical care —almost none of them had ever seen a doctor before— these unsophisticated and trusting men became the pawns in what James Jones, author of the excellent history on the subject, Bad Blood, identified as “the longest non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.”
The study was meant to discover how syphilis affected blacks as opposed to whites —the theory being that whites experienced more neurological complications from syphilis, whereas blacks were more susceptible to cardiovascular damage. How this knowledge would have changed clinical treatment of syphilis is uncertain.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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The Experiments started when FDR and the Dems took control of the Federal Government. Let's say that again: Tuskegee started in 1932 once the Democrats took Congress and FDR and the Dems took the White House....
