[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Let’s cut to the chase. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was not done without problems. But did the Medical Industry learn enough about syphilis to to find ways to fight it?

[CheshireTheCat]

Let’s cut to the chase;

The prez of the United States should know the difference between a distinguished and historical military unit and the name of the study that black people cite as the source of their suspicion about medical advice from government.

[Gay State Conservative]

I live near a major medical school and participate in various research studies to earn $$$ and get me out of the house (and away from the laptop). Before these study start you have to sign 20 pages of disclosure regarding what they have planned. I think that lack of disclosure was at least part of the problem with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

[TChad]

But did the Medical Industry learn enough about syphilis to to find ways to fight it?

The "Tuskegee Syphilis Study" ran from 1937 to 1972. By 1947 it was known that penicillin was effective against syphilis, yet the study subjects were not informed that a treatment had become available, and they were never treated.