{"id":1982543,"date":"2023-07-25T18:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-tuskegee-anniversary-proof-that-trusting-govt-with-your-health-has-been-destroying-lives-for-decades\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T22:26:28","slug":"the-tuskegee-anniversary-proof-that-trusting-govt-with-your-health-has-been-destroying-lives-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-tuskegee-anniversary-proof-that-trusting-govt-with-your-health-has-been-destroying-lives-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuskegee Anniversary: Government&#8217;s Health Trust Destroying Lives for Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-tuskegee-anniversary-proof-that-trusting-govt-with-your-health-has-been-destroying-lives-for-decades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1982543&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Tuskegee\u200b Anniversary: Proof That Trusting \u2062Gov&#8217;t with \u2063Your Health Has Been Destroying Lives \u200bfor Decades<\/h2>\n<p>On July 24, 1972, \u2062the Washington, D.C.-based Washington Star newspaper exposed\u2062 the details\u200b of a 40-year-old crime against hundreds of black men.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bperpetrator of this\u2063 crime,\u200b as it \u200coften has been, was the United States government.<\/p>\n<p>In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) began a study \u200bof \u2062untreated syphilis in black men. To \u2062facilitate the study, health officials worked with the famed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/another-gaffe-biden-blames-black-vaccine-hesitancy-experimentations-tuskegee-airmen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuskegee<\/a> Institute in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuskegee\u200b Institute holds a special place in black history. Booker T. Washington, one of \u2062America\u2019s foremost \u2062advocates for black vocational \u2064education\u200c in \u200cthe late 19th and early 20th centuries,\u2063 served as principal of\u2064 the school from its founding in 1881 until his death in 1915.<\/p>\n<p>During WWII, Tuskegee-trained black fighter pilots \u200dknown as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rashida-tlaib-ilhan-omar-stay-seated-tuskegee-airman-honored-standing-ovation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuskegee Airmen<\/a>\u201d flew thousands of sorties over Europe.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On this day in 1972, \u200dReporters\u2063 exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment \u2014 a secret study to examine the effects of untreated syphilis \u200din Black men.<\/p>\n<p>American medicine has\u2064 been built upon the \u200babuse of black \u2062people with no oversight.<\/p>\n<p>A THREAD! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5IeMFSyNzu\">pic.twitter.com\/5IeMFSyNzu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AFRICAN &#038; BLACK HISTORY (@AfricanArchives) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfricanArchives\/status\/1683483556213923841?\">July\u2063 24, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Thus, the Washington Star\u2019s revelations of U.S. government officials\u2019 unethical treatment of the black men involved in the \u2064Tuskegee syphilis \u2064study must have \u200dstruck black Americans as particularly painful and\u2063 galling.<\/p>\n<h3>The Start of\u200b the Study<\/h3>\n<p>The 1932 Tuskegee study \u2062began with 600 participants, \u200c399 of whom had contracted syphilis.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/tuskegee\/timeline.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDC<\/a>, the participants did \u200dnot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jk-rowling-blasts-trans-activists-after-death-threat-this-movement-poses-no-risk-to-women-whatsoever\/\" title=\"JK Rowling Blasts Trans Activists After Death Threat: \u2018This Movement Poses No Risk To Women Whatsoever\u2019\">give informed consent<\/a>. In fact, \u201cResearchers \u2064told the men they were\u2062 being \u200ctreated\u2063 for \u2018bad \u200bblood,\u2019 a local\u2064 term used to describe several\u200b ailments, including syphilis, \u2063anemia, and fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study\u2062 began, therefore, with a government\u2063 lie.<\/p>\n<p>Worse yet, in the 1940s, when doctors began using\u200b penicillin to \u2062treat syphilis, the Tuskegee \u2062human test \u2063subjects received \u200bno such treatment. Instead, the study continued \u200cfor \u200bdecades.<\/p>\n<p>For\u200c years, some conservatives have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-tuskegee-anniversary-proof-that-trusting-govt-with-your-health-has-been-destroying-lives-for-decades\/\" title=\"Tuskegee Anniversary: Government's Health Trust Destroying Lives for Decades\">demonstrated \u2064unfortunate tone-deafness<\/a> \u200dwhen it comes to black Americans\u2019 distrust of the government.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2008 presidential campaign, for instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2008\/05\/tall-tales-about-tuskegee-jonah-goldberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jonah Goldberg<\/a>, then-editor at National \u2062Review, \u200bused the Tuskegee\u200d story to criticize Rev. Jeremiah Wright,\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-barack-obama-presided-greatest-missed-opportunity-american-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> former pastor in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In an\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/human-experimentation-and-gene-editing-inside-chinas-race-to-create-genetically-modified-soldiers\/\" title=\"Human Experimentation And Gene-Editing: Inside China\u2019s Race To Create Genetically Modified Soldiers\">op-ed entitled<\/a>, \u201cTall Tales\u2062 about Tuskegee,\u201d Goldberg \u200ddismissed Wright\u2019s claim that the U.S. \u2062government created\u2062 the \u200bHIV \u200dvirus in order\u2062 to kill off black \u200cpeople.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg argued that this claim \u200chad roots in Tuskegee-related exaggerations.<\/p>\n<p>Bad things happened in\u200c the Tuskegee experiment, \u2064Goldberg \u2062admitted, but \u201cno one disputes\u200c that Tuskegee\u2064 had nothing whatsoever to do with genocide or even a\u2062 desire to spread the \u2064disease among the black population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, both Rev. Wright\u2019s comments and Goldberg\u2019s criticisms fall \u200dshort of\u2063 the mark.<\/p>\n<p>The question is not \u200cwhether black Americans had reason to\u200d distrust the federal government.\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-furious-black-community-used-perpetrate-attack-americans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Americans<\/a> have centuries\u2019 worth of evidence to show \u2063that\u200c many \u2062government officials have never\u2064 been\u2063 their friends.<\/p>\n<p>The question is whether Americans of any color have\u2064 reason to trust \u200dtheir government, including \u2063its\u200d health \u2064officials.<\/p>\n<p>After all, even in the\u200d limited sphere of syphilis-related transgressions, the\u2064 U.S. government\u2019s guilt goes beyond\u2063 Tuskegee.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, Professor Susan M. Reverby of Wellesley \u200cCollege, editor of \u201cTuskegee Truths: Rethinking\u200b the \u200bTuskegee Syphilis\u2064 Study\u201d (2000), published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/journal-of-policy-history\/article\/normal-exposure-and-inoculation-syphilis-a-phs-tuskegee-doctor-in-guatemala-19461948\/BEC952071E283DC07D2ED377645D102B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a> on\u2062 the U.S. government\u2019s involvement in a similar study in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>From 1946 to 1948, the\u200d U.S. government deliberately infected Guatemalan prostitutes with syphilis or gonorrhea. Then, U.S.-paid agents made sure the\u2063 disease spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the cooperation of officials\u200d at the Ministry of Justice \u2064and the warden of Guatemala City\u2019s Central Penitentiary, which housed \u200cnearly fifteen hundred \u2064inmates\u201d Reverby wrote,\u2063 \u201cprostitutes who tested positive for either syphilis or gonorrhea were allowed to offer their services to prison inmates, paid\u2062 for by U.S. taxpayers through the funds of the PHS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, many conservatives\u2019 faith in their\u200b nation\u2019s \u2063institutions and in public-health officials generally has diminished.<\/p>\n<p>The anniversary \u2063of\u200d the report that exposed the \u2064Tuskegee\u2063 syphilis study reminds \u2064us that this\u2064 loss \u200cof faith has not occurred\u200b without good reason.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tuskegee-anniversary-proof-trusting-govt-health-destroying-lives-decades\/\">The Tuskegee Anniversary: Proof That \u2062Trusting Gov&#8217;t with\u2063 Your Health\u200b Has Been Destroying Lives for Decades<\/a> appeared \u200cfirst on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The\u2064 Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 24, 1972, the Washington Star newspaper revealed a 40-year-old crime against numerous black men, exposing the United States government as the perpetrator. In 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) initiated a study on untreated syphilis in black men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1982544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1982543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1982543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1982543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1982543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1982543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1982543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}