The victims of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment were not "participants."
Please send a letter or email to Dr. Francis Collins, the Director of the National Institutes of Health. Francis.Collins@nih.hhs.gov Francis S. Collins Director of the National Institutes of Health 9000 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Dear Dr. Collins, As you must know, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was one of the most egregious and shameful violations of human rights in the history of American science and medicine. What you may not be aware of is the fact that, on its website, the Centers for Disease Control refers to the victims of the Tuskegee Syhphilis Experiment as "participants." ( http://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/faq.htm ) The CDC itself describes the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment as a study that "involved 600 black men – 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. The study was conducted without the benefit of patients' informed consent. Researchers told the men they were being treated for 'bad blood,' a loc...