Has the American Government ever conspired to used Blacks as guinea pigs in medical research?

For forty years between 1932 and 1972, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis. These men, for the most part illiterate sharecroppers from one of the poorest counties in Alabama, were never told what disease they were suffering from or of its seriousness. Informed that they were being treated for “bad blood,”1 their doctors had no intention of curing them of syphilis at all. The data for the experiment was to be collected from autopsies of the men, and they were thus deliberately left to degenerate under the ravages of tertiary syphilis—which can include tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death. “As I see it,” one of the doctors involved explained, “we have no further interest in these patients until they die.”





Note: it didn't end until 1972!!!

Has the American Government ever conspired to used Blacks as guinea pigs in medical research?
Yes. Tuskegee experiment. Horrible!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_St...





Note that Tuskegee ran from 1932-1972...1972! Untreated syphilis can be an incredibly devastating, excruciatingly painful disease.
Reply:Tuskegee...google it
Reply:not sure. go ask rev. wright!
Reply:News flash, the US Government uses Americans of ALL races as guinea pigs in medical research. That's how they test their pharmaceuticals and various other treatment options. Wow, the conspiracy is bigger than you thought...oh wait, nope it's just a regular old well known fact...
Reply:No, that is just the african american population trying to frame us for nothing. I think they are trying to "repay" us for slavery; however, that was 100 and some odd years ago!! Sorry that we were mean to you but cry me a river, build a bridge and get over it!!!!
Reply:yeah, roosevelt, truman, kennedy, and johnson let tuskeegee continue, while nixon, the republican ended it