EP143 - A Forty-Year Lie: Dissecting the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

For forty years, the United States government promised free healthcare to hundreds of impoverished African American men in rural Alabama. This promise concealed a monstrous secret: they were subjects in a deadly experiment to track the ravages of untreated syphilis, even long after a cure was readily available. This is the story of a medical betrayal that reshaped American ethics and left a legacy of mistrust that endures to this day.