Dr. John J. Ray September 22, 2011@ THE PSYCHOLOGIST
Editor's Note: For some reason P&D was hit from a link in THE Psychologist back to 2011. I went there to see what was of such interest from 11 years ago, and as usual, I never did find what it was but I did scroll down and found some interesting posts by John, who on occasion published some of my articles, and gave me permission to publish his work many years ago. I thought this was interesting as I assumed the narrative we've been force fed on this story for all these years was accurate. You may wish to peruse this blog @ The Psychologist. John also publishes, Greenie Watch and Dissecting Leftism. RK
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study has been widely condemned as an
example of American racism -- and Leftists love it for that reason. It
enables them to be "holier than thou". THEY would never do such an evil
thing! It is usually portrayed as the U.S. government infecting black
men with syphilis.
The truth is nothing of the sort, of course.
The key fact that nobody seems to notice is that the study lasted for 40
years. 40 years? Shouldn't the men have died long before that? Once
you ask that question, the truth begins to come out.
The men recruited
for the study ALREADY HAD tertiary syphilis. And in the tertiary stage
the disease has usually been naturally "beaten" in some way. In other
words, most such patients are no longer ill and live on rather as if
they had never been infected. THAT intriguing fact was what sparked the
study. It was an attempt to get more information about the life
history of tertiary syphilitics. Richard Shweder has all the details.
And
the amusing thing is that the study was founded and carried out by
"progressives". "Progressivism" was overwhelmingly dominant in pre-war
America. And it wasn't even a government study initially. It was
started by a private charity funded by the former chairman of Sears
Roebuck, a Progressive Jew named Julius Rosenwald. A small excerpt
from Wikipedia:
Julius Rosenwald, an American clothier, became part-owner of Sears, Roebuck and Company in 1895, and eventually served as its president from 1908 to 1922, and chairman of its Board of Directors until his death in 1932.He became interested in social issues, especially education for African Americans, and provided funding through Dr. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, a historically black college (HBCU), prior to founding the fund....I am pointing that out in the hope that it will take one of the Leftists' toys away from them. Where other facts fail to penetrate their prejudiced brains, perhaps the fact that the study was the work of a "progressive" Jewish philanthropist might cause them to lose their erections.
The Rosenwald Fund was also one of the original backers of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. With support from the Rosenwald Fund, an ambitious program had begun to improve the health of African Americans in US southern states in 1928. Emphasis was on treating people with syphilis, then found at a high rate in poor African-American communities.
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