Javan12

Disgusting. You attempt to "champion" women causes by trying to further paint Obama as a muslim, even though the facts clearly indicate he is not. You attempt to smear Obama for comments made by a man who, as each day passes, is defended by clergymen both white and black, as someone who doesn't hate America, but in fact spoke truth to power. You display the height of hypocrisy by excluding Hillary Clinton's shady religious past. You exclude her pathological lying. You exclude any mention of her inability to show any transparency. HRC is disingenuous at best, and an outright liar at worst. Either way, these are not the qualities I look for in a candidate. You Reagan Democrats however, obviously prefer that in your candidates. posted 03/30/2008 at 09:31:06

Unfortunately, although they didn't "inject" them, they did, with malice and forethought, (the entire object of the study was to watch the disease spread, they had a cure, but refused to give it.) assisted in the spread of the disease just to see what happened. I notice in your article, you casually left out the statistics:

399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor " and mostly illiterate " African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis, conducted this study between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama.

Rather than treat all syphilitic subjects with penicillin and close the study, or split off a control group for testing penicillin; the Tuskegee scientists withheld penicillin and information about penicillin, purely to continue to study how the disease spreads and kills. Participants were also prevented from accessing syphilis treatment programs that were available to other people in the area. The study continued until 1972, when a leak to the press resulted in its termination.

Many of the poor men subjected to this barbarism, were given PLACEBO'S just so the researchers could watch the fatal progression of the disease. They lied, and mislead Blacks, just to watch them die. Why? They already had a cure... what was the point?

Time after time, ethics were thrown completely out the window. Often, the researchers, would send out misleading flyers, promising treatment, food, or lodging, only to lure more people in for spinal taps, and other barbaric research practices.

How do we know treatment was never issued? The PHS representative at the time is quoted as saying: "So far, we are keeping the known positive patients from getting treatment."

How about the 40 wives who became infected, or the number (19) of children who were born with congenital syphilis? If anyone has done an injustice to history, its you David Mills. posted 03/22/2008 at 15:41:50