About this episode
“It’s like these men are being held in a bubble as science marches forward.” Mike tells Sarah how one of history's most unethical experiments came crashing down. Digressions include the history of penicillin, the power of TV movies and the mysterious diagnosis of "Satan's crabs." This episode is happier than the last one, but still contains a lot of racist language and some grisly Nazi examples toward the beginning. Support us: Subscribe on Patreon Donate on Paypal Buy cute merch Links! Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Medical Research versus Human Rights “There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:” African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic The Study Of Untreated Syphilis In The Negro Male Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study The 1972 Ebony article The Discovery of Penicillin—New Insights After More Than 75 Years of Clinical Use Syphilis Victims in U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years The Rhetoric of Dehumanization: An Analysis of Medical Reports of The Tuskegee Syphilis Project Support the show