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The 50th Anniversary of the End of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Just a reminder that the U.S. government treated 623 African American men like human guinea pigs, so government doctors could study the course of the disease. They watched as these men suffered in agony and died during a period of four decades before ending the experiment and offering them treatment.

And yet, here's the current CDC director's spin below:

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Snuffy1957 · 61-69, M
And people actually think the US government gives a damn about us citizens! Black white or whatever!
@Snuffy1957 Governments around the world look at us as livestock. They think they own us.
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@Snuffy1957 Well they care... but they're an amorphous crowd and they don't know how to care. They could start by not doing (obviously) wrongful things.