1.0 link 92896 <![CDATA[Blacks 'Injected' With Syphilis? Never Happened]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-mills/blacks-injected-with-syph_b_92896.html One peculiar footnote of the Jeremiah Wright controversy has been the repetition -- by educated black men on national television -- of a stubborn myth. That the U.S. government "injected black men with syphilis."

Rev. Wright said from the pulpit, in a video clip shown on Fox News: "The government lied about the Tuskegee experiment! They purposely infected African-American men with syphilis!"

Wright is wrong. That's not what the Tuskegee experiment was.

In the "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro...

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