Tuskegee Syphilis Study Part 2: The Truth
You're Wrong About
Sarah Marshall
4.6 • 23K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
“It’s like these men are being held in a bubble as science marches forward.” Mike tells Sarah how one of history's most unethical experiments came crashing down. Digressions include the history of penicillin, the power of TV movies and the mysterious diagnosis of "Satan's crabs." This episode is happier than the last one, but still contains a lot of racist language and some grisly Nazi examples toward the beginning.
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- Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care
- Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
- Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
- Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
- The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Research versus Human Rights
- “There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:” African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic
- The Study Of Untreated Syphilis In The Negro Male
- Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
- The 1972 Ebony article
- The Discovery of Penicillin—New Insights After More Than 75 Years of Clinical Use
- Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years
- The Rhetoric of Dehumanization: An Analysis of Medical Reports of The Tuskegee Syphilis Project
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| 0:00.0 | You used to be able to undertake terrible ideas in medicine and less so now. |
| 0:05.4 | And so that's why we have to keep this terrible idea going. |
| 0:22.3 | Welcome to You Wrong About where having the best intentions probably won't help you. |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, that's pretty good, although we also have some eugenic intentions. |
| 0:31.3 | Oh, well, okay. Welcome to You Wrong About where we cannot wake up from the nightmare of history. |
| 0:37.9 | So we can stop hitting this news button. |
| 0:41.9 | That's pretty good. That's pretty good. That's too too much for a beach if we continue. |
| 0:48.1 | I'm Michael Hobbs. I'm a reporter for The Huffington Post. |
| 0:50.6 | I'm Sarah Marshall. I'm working on a book about the Satanic Panic. |
| 0:53.6 | And if you want to support the show and hear bonus episodes, you can support us on patreon.com slash |
| 0:58.9 | You Wrong About. And we're on PayPal and we sell t-shirts and other stuff. |
| 1:03.2 | And you can also not do any of that and just keep listening. |
| 1:06.0 | Listening is the most support you can give us. So thank you for being here. |
| 1:10.2 | And today we are talking about the Tuskegee Cifullus Study again. |
| 1:15.2 | Part two. It was a huge bummer last time. It's going to be roughly the similar amount of bummer this time. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh boy. Do you want to let us know where did where did we leave off? |
| 1:24.7 | Can you even remember a whole week has gone by? |
| 1:30.8 | We're enjoying the fact that we're actually recording these on consecutive days. |
| 1:35.9 | Yes. So there's a little movie magic happening here. |
| 1:39.6 | But reach back into your memory for 21 hours ago when we recorded. |
| 1:44.0 | Okay. So in the beginning there was a US government study that was like we think that we're |
| 1:49.0 | going to find high incidents of latent ciflis among black men in Macon County, Alabama. |
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