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    ThirdAmendmentManBreanna Edwards
    5/11/17 2:25pm

    Great article. This topic and the forced sterilization of blacks against their will and/or knowledge (growing up in NC I primarily know their history of it) always makes me sick.

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      crouching tigerThirdAmendmentMan
      5/11/17 3:32pm

      I also grew up in NC, and learned that sterilization was also aimed at the mentally disabled, and Native communities. NC lawmakers were enthusiastic about eugenics.

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      ThirdAmendmentMancrouching tiger
      5/11/17 4:12pm

      Yup. NC really, really loved that pseudoscientific bullshit.

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    IAMBlastedBiggsLostBurnerBreanna Edwards
    5/11/17 2:36pm

    This is an excellent effort to keep the humanity involved in this front and center. The appropriate horror of the initial reaction can dull and fade over time, and it’s important to remember that that study will have ramifications that will last generations.

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    Cali4lifeBreanna Edwards
    5/11/17 3:33pm

    This story never gets better. Having lived through the news accounts and national story from the 70's and all the subsequent follow-up.. it never gets better. Even those measly amounts they were paid are still insulting.

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    MalcireBreanna Edwards
    5/12/17 7:33am

    Great article.

    One of the many things I never got about the study was why. It’s not like syphillis was some new disease. It had been known about for centuries. So what was even expected to be learned by the study before it was discovered that penicillin was a cure.

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    crouching tigerBreanna Edwards
    5/11/17 3:33pm

    I don’t know where to look, but were the papers published from this unethical study ever retracted (or were ethics statements ever added to them)?

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