The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

[svero]

I haven't seen this discussed here so I thought in the interest of starting a discussion about something that doesn't involve Israel I might ask what people think of this. If you don't know anything about it...

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0762136.html

So is there another side to this story or is it just simply as insane as it sounds?

 

[Mycroft]

There is no other side to this. The United States government along with top members of the medical field made a decision that Black people could be treated as lab animals and allowed to die. The "experement" was allowed to continue for some 40 years until someone with a conscience found out about it.

It's something to remember if you're ever tempted to think we have progressed beyond barbarism.

 

[svero]

It totally blows my mind. This is something that was allowed to continue into the 1970's. Hardly ancient history either. Stunning....