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|    16 Jul 24 04:38:49    |
      From: dannyb@panix.com               - NOTE: May 18th, but just made the news              [Alabama]              The whistleblower who helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study has died               Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government        allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for        syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, has died. He was        86.               Buxtun died May 18 of Alzheimer's disease in Rocklin, California,        according to his attorney, Minna Fernan.               Buxtun is revered as a hero to public health scholars and ethicists for        his role in bringing to light the most notorious medical research        scandal in U.S. history. Documents that Buxtun provided to The        Associated Press, and its subsequent investigation and reporting, led        to a public outcry that ended the study in 1972.               Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400        Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When        antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat the disease,        federal health officials ordered that the drugs be withheld. The study        became an observation of how the disease ravaged the body over time.        ========       rest:              https://www.al.com/news/2024/07/the-whistleblower-who-helped-end       the-tuskegee-syphilis-study-has-died.html              _____________________________________________________       Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key        dannyb@panix.com       [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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