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...
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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...
Everything Is Simple to a Simpleton. How public health slogans like "use a condom" can misinform.
Shameless Care Podcast
39 minutes
1 month ago
Everything Is Simple to a Simpleton. How public health slogans like "use a condom" can misinform.
Public health loves a slogan. “Condoms equal safe sex.” “Just say no.” “Seatbelts save lives.” They’re short, sticky, and persuasive — and they work. Many more people buckle up today than ever before because of decades of relentless messaging. More teens carry condoms because they were told they mean “protection.” But here’s the problem: slogans are also misinformation by omission. They leave out the details that actually matter. And when you oversimplify science, people start believing thin...
Shameless Care Podcast
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...
