A picture of an old issue of the New York times with the headline "syphilis victims in U.S. study went untreated for 40 years" the article continues "Washington July 25-- for 40 years the United States public health service has conducted a study in which human beings who were induced to serve as guinea pigs have gone without medical treatment for the disease and a few have died of it's late effects, even though an effective therapy was eventually discovered. The study was conducted to determine from autopsies what the disease does to the human body. Officials of the health service who initiated the experiment have long since retired. Current officials, who say they have serious doubts about the morality of the study, also say that it is too late to treat the syphilis in any surviving participants. Doctors in the service say they are now rendering whatever other medical services they can give to the survivors while the study of the disease's effects continues. Dr. Merlin K Duval, assistant secretary of health, education, and welfare for health and scientific affairs, expressed shock on learning of the study. He said that he was making an immediate investigation . The experiment, called the tuskegee study, began in 1932 with about 600 black men
The US is built on non-stop slavery and genocide
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