The Tuskegee Study (The World is Weird 1)

2020-05-13

Episode 06 | The Tuskegee Study (The World is Weird 1) The tale of a 40-year clinical study with overtones of both race and class, shows just what some people are willing to do once they have otherized their fellow humans. If they're willing to do that, the reasoning goes, what else might they be willing to do? This builds distrust, which feeds conspiracy theories. This is the shameful story of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. A true thing that happened, because the world is weird. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on...

Episode 06 | The Tuskegee Study (The World is Weird 1)

The tale of a 40-year clinical study with overtones of both race and class, shows just what some people are willing to do once they have otherized their fellow humans. If they're willing to do that, the reasoning goes, what else might they be willing to do? This builds distrust, which feeds conspiracy theories.

This is the shameful story of the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. A true thing that happened, because the world is weird.

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SECTIONS

02:47 - What Is Syphilis? Signs, Symptoms & Stages
05:52 - A Short History of Detection & Treatment
06:44 - The Lay of the Land, Pre-Tuskegee
08:45 - The Tuskegee Study Begins
13:26 - Despite the Henderson Act, the Study Continues
14:47 - A Whistleblower & an Ending
16:17 - The Government Reacts
20:01 - We Did Nothing Wrong - We Just Targeted Poor People
21:34 - Not the Only Such Study
23:16 - A Pattern of Racially Motivated Abuse by the Medical Establishment
24:38 - African Americans Get Worse Healthcare
26:56 - A Bit of Both - Poverty & Race Go Hand in Hand in the US

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