Most people think the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a secret government experiment uncovered by a brave whistleblower. It wasn’t. For forty years, the U.S. Public Health Service openly studied hundreds of Black men in Alabama who had syphilis—without treating them, even after penicillin became the known cure. What’s rarely discussed is that it was never actually hidden. The study appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals. The Milbank Memorial Fund publicly supported it. Articles were published...