Comedy
There may be no cost too great for good science, but what about bad science? Join us as we discuss some of America's questionable experiments such as spraying San Francisco with a bacteria to see what happened, watching black people die of syphilis, and injecting prisoners with pesticides because they had the pesticide and syringes lying around.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/the-father-of-modern-gynecology-performed-shocking-experiments-on-slaves
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1998-07-21-1998202099-story.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/tuskegee-study-medical-distrust-research/487439/
https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm
https://www.infoplease.com/us/race-population/tuskegee-syphilis-experiment
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