The Tuskegee experiment (1932-1972) has gone down in history as a dark stain on medical research due to the horrendous way the patients were treated, a fact made all the more ignominious seeing ...

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 ...

Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama ... had raised any concerns about how the experiment was being conducted.

Peter Buxtun, who blew the lid off the so-called Tuskegee study in which the U.S. government withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama over decades in a macabre and ...