The Importance Of The Tuskegee Study

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In class I learned about the Tuskegee study and the different types of drugs used and abused by Nazis and German physicians. The Tuskegee study is very important because it has a huge impact on how we conduct research today. The Nazi and the people who did the Tuskegee experiments are very similar because they either used drugs or innocent people for their own selfish reasons. German doctors gave methamphetamine drug Pervitin to Nazi soldiers to enhance their energy to fight better in World War 2. The Germans supplied them with this drug because the idea was that they can turn a regular guy into a super soldier. The Tuskegee study was an experiment where the government lied to poor African American males infected with Syphilis. They told them

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