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Close up of male hands writing on a blood sample cylinder from the Tuskegee Syphilis Study NIAD: 824613

Open science and research ethics

Recently, a collection of reproduced documents from the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment became available as a digital collection through the National Library of Medicine. The USPHS Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee is notorious for its utter lack of ethics. It started in 1932 and initially involved ...