64: The Racist Syphilis Experiment

What happens when you mix America’s Public Health Service with 399 men with untreated syphilis? Nothing, for 40 years. That’s right, America secretly ran a study on black men just to see why would happen if they didn’t treat their deadly and transmissible disease.You can WATCH the podcast over on our YouTube channel:http://youtube.com/SciGuys If you would like to support the podcast, please donate to our Patreon:http://patreon.com/SciGuys If you'd like to see more of us, follow our socials!Facebookhttp://facebook.com/SciGuysPodTwitterhttp://twitter.com/SciGuysPodInstagramhttp://instagram.com/SciGuysPodReferences and Further Reading  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/16/youve-got-bad-blood-the-horror-of-the-tuskegee-syphilis-experiment/ https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4568718/ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vKFYAtcLAxgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607737/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/44448396?seq=1 https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/23029 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/syphilis/ https://www.britannica.com/science/syphilis Follow the Sci Guys@notcorry / @jampkin / @lukecutforthsciguys.co.uk