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from Wikipedia: [..] Investigators enrolled in the study a total of 600 impoverished, African American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama. Of these men,399 had previously contracted syphilis before the study began, and 201 did not have the disease. The men were given free medical care, meals, and free burial insurance for participating in the study. After funding for treatment was lost, the study was continued without informing the men they would never be treated. None of the men infected were ever told they had the disease, and none were treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic became proven for the treatment of syphilis. [..] The victims of the study, all African American, included numerous men who died of syphilis,40 wives who contracted the disease, and 19 children born with congenital syphilis.

Hi Aston.. Thanks for sharing. Indeed, I didn't know about it.. ''arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history''!