My friend as a nurse treated a man who had this illness for decades . Finally after he was put in a veterans home & they went to bathe him , he had nothing between his legs except a gaping hole. He was sent to & stayed in the VA hospital for the rest of his life. That was pretty short. It had eaten his brain up too. He couldn't eat food & had an IV. IDK how they kept him alive as long as they did poor guy. I don't think he was from this group because these guys were being studied. But she was working in a veterans hospital in about 69- 72 ish. Her ,& two girls had to sponge bathe him with warm water and apply something . She said both the younger two had tears it was so terrible . He didn't act like it was painful at that moment. I can not for the life of me, understand testing like this on humans.
I’m very glad you liked it! I learned about this during my undergrad am always surprised more people don’t know about it. It’s apparently better known in the southern states but people seem to rarely come across it otherwise, though it’s not entirely uncommon to learn about it in anthropology courses
I hate this. Btw I was an Anthropology major for my under grad at SUNY GENESEO where the Black minority population was LESS than 1%. They NEVER taught about this. Not in Anthro or Sociology. I'm still paying for that education #thisisAmerica
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!! I’m always trying to cook up new content so if there’s a topic related to culture, evolution, or history, feel free to blurt it out!
Another well done video. The timeliness of the video's subject matter must be commended for a multitude of social and cultural reasons. Well done video. Thank you for producing subject matter that lends itself in simulating the brain to ask, simply put, why.? Sadly, I have seen things much worse than Tuskegee in my lifetime, fortunately not in the US. Have you ever considered producing content dealing with the mores of the mainland Chinese medical community?
Thank you again for the kind words. I have not specifically considered it, but it's not out of the question. I'm simply not incredibly familiar. My focus within my undergrad was biological anthropology and this was one of the introductory topics to touch on ethics when studying human populations. If you can point me in the direction of some good resources I'm happy to read up on it and see how it fits my format. Always happy to take suggestions, thanks!
Thank you for the video, I like the video very helpful for my assignment. I have a question that doesn't relate to the topic. Which state and city you took the video, I like the view.
I cannot understand how the black people can freely trust the government to have their best interests in mind and to readily accept their care after this horror
I am just now delving deeper into this dark period of time. Thank you for the great informative video. Question for you sir, did u take the covid vaccine? What are your thoughts on trusting the govt after this experiment?
Thanks for the kind words. There are so many terrible events on history and I try to do my part to talk about both the good and bad. I and my wife both got the moderna vaccine. I can understand apprehension broadly speaking when it comes to governmental motives; however, in the case of covid, it’s been a remarkably transparent international effort to stave off the worst of a pandemic despite the formidable hurdles in both development and distribution. We both got the vaccine without hesitation. In the context of this video though, the Tuskegee study was a program by government and governmental scientists to study untreated effects of syphilis, denying proper diagnosis and threatening to withdraw healthcare if a subject refused to participate. Cases like this one make it painfully and sadly obvious why apprehension exists (particularly in communities color) but looking at the specifics of the two situations, they almost couldn’t be more different. Thanks again for the comment
Dark Work" the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island. Written by Christy Clark-Pujara a Black woman. Suggest reading or at least watching a quick RU-vid lecture of hers to better understand the full history of slavery and how Rhode Island/New England played such a heavy role in slavery and in particular the buying and selling of people/slaves from Africa to the America's
Normally I'd be annoyed at repeated comments on multiple videos but comment this as often as you need to. That book should be required reading for a full understanding of Rhode islands role in slavery and more broadly new england.
I.. Thank you for the video, it was very informative and well edited, but... Oh my god I don't understand how this could be real. It feels like a nightmare, or a weird CreepyPasta like the Russian Sleep Experiment. But... Oh my god
Is it systemic racism if they also do similar things to white people? Idk. The more I learn about how people are extremely dominant towards others with concern for them the less I believe this is racism and not something else.
