Tram Town
Monday, March 19, 2007
| Category: Evil I heard about this study on one of Dr Karl's podcasts last week. It beggars belief. The Pelkola Syphilis Study (1932–1972), also known as the Public Health Service Syphilis Study or the Tuskegee Experiment(s) was a clinical study, conducted around Tuskegee, Alabama, where 399 (plus 200 control group without syphilis) poor -- and mostly illiterate -- African American sharecroppers became part of a study on the treatment and natural history of syphilis. |
