Masha Parks

Tuskegee Syphilis Reaction Paper

I feel that the purpose of this article along with the visual aide of the movie we watched in class, the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment had been purposely obscured for over forty years, as the U.S. public health could not recognize that this study would horrifyingly portray this country as racist in itself. To hinder one group of the U.S. population, to use these innocent men as experiments was morbidly wrong and as the study progressed it was far to late to cease the study and they had to “save face” to be sure their reputation was redeemed. Much of the article depicts how the U.S. Government epically failed, stating that the U.S. Government did something that was deeply, profoundly, morally wrong. During that time period the PHS (Public Health Service) favorably felt and did not accept media’s definition that this experiment was not as morbid as the Nazi Doctors on Jewish Victims during World War II, when in doubt this experiment provided falsifications to 400 men who were deceivingly told that this experiment would cure an illness that was due to their “bad blood”, and to have doctors at that time state, they’ll have no further interest until these men die, this population suffered under the forced consent that eventually they will receive proper treatment unsure of how long it may take. During the legacy of the Tuskegee study, in 1990, a survey revealed that 10% of African Americans believed that the U.S. government created AIDS as a plot to exterminate blacks, and another 20% could not rule out the possibility may be true, no matter the actualization in numbers, it’s the point that U.S. Government lied to innocent human beings to believe that their population was the only population needed to complete this Tuskegee study and how unrightfully it’s reflected after many decades of oppression, believing that