The Tuskegee Study

For almost a half century, syphilis infected black men from Macon County, Alabama were lied to, untreated for syphilis and then left to die, all in the name of science. Or was it really done for a scientific purpose? It took nearly fifty years for out government to realize that this experiment was truly unscientific. But it was too late to save the men that had already died or crippled because of this disease. There …

…men of Tuskegee. Of the four hundred men that started in the experiment only a few survived. The experiment was unscientific and there are many facts to back this statement up. All the Tuskegee Study proved was that there are still people in our society that believe that the black race is still inferior to the white race. The Tuskegee experiment was just another way during this time period of putting down the black race.