The Tuskegee syphilis study, as the experiment is often called today, began in 1932 with the recruitment of 600 Black men, 399 with syphilis and 201 without, to serve as the control group.

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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 ...

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When people hear about syphilis, a contagious venereal disease, they might think it's an old disease of royal families. More ...

Then it can spread to the nerves, and become neurological syphilis." In 1932, the Tuskegee experiment began at a time when there was no cure for syphilis. An article on history.com titled ...

When people hear about syphilis, a contagious venereal disease, they might think it's an old disease of royal families. But ...