[brwnsuga]

The black men were not injected with syphilis, but they were diagnosed with syphilis and left untreated even after there was a simple cure found for this disease. They were unwilling and unknowing participants in a study and the medical establishment at the time treated them without regard to medical ethics. The ignored the most important tenant of medicine to “first do no harm”. Please do some research about this subject.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Please do some research about this subject.

Thanks for providing facts about the shameful, immoral Tuskegee episode. But I don't understand the connection between that and keeping girls from getting this vaccine.

[Old North State]

It is my understanding that the men selected for the study were in the tertiary stage of the disease for which there was no proven cure and the effectiveness of treatments was still unknown. I read that somewhere but I can't verfiy that it is accurate.

[the Real fifi]

The author said all these things—and that since that time there was a substantial change in biomedical ethics which would have forbidden such treatment ..including at the University of Chicago.