The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medicine's 40-Year Betrayal

Between 1932 and 1972, 600 Black men in Alabama were told they were receiving free healthcare, but were actually subjects in a horrific experiment studying untreated syphilis. We unpack how this study happened, the lives it destroyed, and why it remains the most infamous ethics violation in American medical history—one that still shapes healthcare distrust today.