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"The United States government did something that was wrong — deeply, profoundly, morally wrong ... clearly racist."
Source
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study — Final Report & Presidential Apology
AP exposé (1972); Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel (1973); President Clinton's apology (1997)
Author
U.S. Public Health Service / U.S. Government
Date
1972 (exposed); 1997 (apology)
Credibility & evidentiary value

Fully DOCUMENTED and officially admitted: for 40 years the U.S. PHS withheld treatment from hundreds of Black men to study untreated syphilis, without informed consent. Exposed by the press in 1972; the government formally apologized in 1997. Settled fact.

Citation · Chicago

U.S. Public Health Service, 'Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male' (1932–1972); HEW Final Report (1973); White House apology, May 16, 1997.

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Historical AnalysisThe Tuskegee Syphilis Study: A Proven Government Atrocity
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