{"id":114,"date":"2006-03-27T21:31:28","date_gmt":"2006-03-27T21:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/tuskegee_take_t\/"},"modified":"2006-03-27T21:31:28","modified_gmt":"2006-03-27T21:31:28","slug":"tuskegee_take_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/science\/tuskegee_take_t\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuskegee, Take Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=160,height=200,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/bizarro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"125\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/images\/bizarro.jpg\" title=\"Bizarro\" alt=\"Bizarro\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>Remember Tuskegee? No, not the huge explosion in Siberia (caused by one of Nikola Tesla&#8217;s experiments&#8211;wink wink.) That was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunguska_event\">Tunguska<\/a>. In the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchstp\/od\/tuskegee\/time.htm\">Tuskegee Syphillis Study<\/a> (1932-1972), hundreds of poor black men in Alabama were given shitty treatment for syphillis to see what would happen. In bad faith, the men were told they had &quot;bad blood.&quot; No diagnosis, no informed consent.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, science writer Rebecca Skloot made a couple of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rebeccaskloot.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/fake-blood-and-research-ethics.html\">blog<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rebeccaskloot.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/more-on-fake-blood-and-research-ethics.html\">posts<\/a> covering the ethical implications of a new study. PolyHeme, a blood substitute, is being tested on unwitting ER patients, mostly in inner-city hospitals. The bizarro blood is creating bad press.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, testing on brown people has gone global, and human guinea pig positions are being outsourced overseas. Jennifer Kahn has a story in the March issue of <em>Wired<\/em> called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.03\/indiadrug.html\">A Nation of Guinea Pigs<\/a> (not to be confused with <em>Jeffrey<\/em> Kahn&#8217;s story in the March issue of <em>Seed<\/em> called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seedmagazine.com\/news\/2006\/03\/the_case_for_human_guinea_pigs.php\"><em>The Case for<\/em> Human Guinea Pigs<\/a>) about how big pharm uses the population of India for cheap drug trials. They receive informed consent, but, as one doctor in the article says: &quot;Nine out of 10 times, the patient will just ask me to make the decision about the trial for him. So what role do I play? Am I a physician, concentrating on what&#8217;s best for the patient? Or am I a researcher interested in recruiting patients?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Now, where did I put my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/silverjacket.typepad.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/take_two_and_lo.html\">PharmAmorin<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Tuskegee? No, not the huge explosion in Siberia (caused by one of Nikola Tesla&#8217;s experiments&#8211;wink wink.) That was Tunguska. In the Tuskegee Syphillis Study (1932-1972), hundreds of poor black men in Alabama were given shitty treatment for syphillis to see what would happen. In bad faith, the men were told they had &quot;bad blood.&quot; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverjacket.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}