These experiments were said to be in attempts to cure Syphilis within the participants, or potential contraction of Syphilis. As these men were chosen, one little detail was left out of the invitation. As these doctors and scientists were not simply trying to cure the disease, but rather test a theory on how its effects differ between white and african american individuals. At one point one doctor explaining that there was more interest in the men after death rather than during life.
Once more, these experiments went on for forty long years, until someone involved with the study was finally able to realize the end game. Despite the PHS supporting the notion that these tests were of good merit, this individual states that nothing was learned through these experiments that could cure, prevent or find any case of infectious Syphilis. The study was soon brought to the attention of the media come 1972, where News Anchor Harry Reasoner stated that these experiments, “were using humans as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study.” …show more content…
As during the forty years, twenty-eight men died directly related to the disease itself, while a hundred more died to related complications. Forty of the men’s wives also contracted the illness during this period, as nineteen children were born with congenital syphilis.
Both the medical and scientific communities have their dark pasts and aspects today, always keeping the unknowing citizen on their toes and with butterflies in their stomach. For there are some things that we as the common population simply just do not know; sometimes its too just too late, but it makes you wonder, whatever could have been kept secret from
Once more, these experiments went on for forty long years, until someone involved with the study was finally able to realize the end game. Despite the PHS supporting the notion that these tests were of good merit, this individual states that nothing was learned through these experiments that could cure, prevent or find any case of infectious Syphilis. The study was soon brought to the attention of the media come 1972, where News Anchor Harry Reasoner stated that these experiments, “were using humans as laboratory animals in a long and inefficient study.” …show more content…
As during the forty years, twenty-eight men died directly related to the disease itself, while a hundred more died to related complications. Forty of the men’s wives also contracted the illness during this period, as nineteen children were born with congenital syphilis.
Both the medical and scientific communities have their dark pasts and aspects today, always keeping the unknowing citizen on their toes and with butterflies in their stomach. For there are some things that we as the common population simply just do not know; sometimes its too just too late, but it makes you wonder, whatever could have been kept secret from