The experiment was meant to study the effects of untreated syphilis, a devastating and life-threatening sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema Pallidum.The original ...

Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea ...

For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the mid-1960s at a U.S. Public Health Service clinic in San Francisco ...

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.

He is known as the whistleblower who revealed the U.S. government was leaving Black men untreated for syphilis during a study in Tuskegee ... unethical and racist experiment to the press.

Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis ... any concerns about how the experiment was being conducted.

For nearly 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service left hundreds of Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., untreated for syphilis ... the unethical and racist experiment to the press.

Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis ... any concerns about how the experiment was being conducted.