An investigative commission condemns the Tuskgee experiment, conducted at the Macon County Health Center in Alabama, beginning in 1932. It analyzed the progression of untreated syphilis in 600 Black farmers, 399 of whom were infected. The subjects were injected with a serum that was actually a placebo. Years passed, and only in 1972 did the experiment come to light and was immediately terminated. The commission concluded its investigation in 1990 and condemned the experiment as immoral, racist, and poorly conducted. In 2006, it was deemed the most infamous study in American history, and organizations were created to prevent its repetition.
