Bill Clinton: Sorry for the Government Conspiracy

In 1997 President Bill Clinton apologized to a group of 8 black men from Alabama who were the last surviving members of the Tuskegee Experiment.  In the early years of the 20th century it was believed by the medical community that black people and white people experienced syphilis differently.  In 1932 two doctors set about studying how untreated syphilis affected black men in Tuskegee Alabama and lied to them about the study.  The patients/test subjects were told they had "bad blood" and needed treatments that included spinal taps and doses of mercury.  The disease was allowed to develop unchecked while the doctors  continuously lied to the 400 men for over 40 years about what was wrong with them.  The horrific experiment was exposed by a whistleblower who saw parallels to the Nazis, a group of people he felt he knew something about having fled from them in the 30s to come to the US.  The press reported on the study in 1972 and by 1974 everything was wonderful and nothing like this ever happened again.  That is until MK Ultra (which is not a beer) and a handful of other super unethical and definitely illegal experiments were conducted by divisions within the US Government.

Get ready for unethical doctors, surprise LSD trips, and whispers of truth (or are they rumors?) from the world of conspiracy theories!