The official name of this scientific study was “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” which began in 1932. 600 black men were enrolled in Macon country, Alabama. 399 with syphilis and 201 without. The researchers told the men they were being treated for “bad blood” but no treatment was given beyond placebo, instead just observation of the disease running its course which included blindness, insanity and death.
Wikipedia is heavily biased, especially against anything that is not Western medicine. You don’t have to look much further than co-founder Larry Sanger, who said “People that I would say are trolls sort of took over. The inmates started running the asylum.” In May of this year he wrote an article titled “Wikipedia is Badly Biased” stating that Wikipedia’s neutral point of view “is dead.”
