New York (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the US government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

In the early 1960s, Peter Buxtun was tracing sexually transmitted infections for the U.S. Public Health Service in San Francisco when he wandered into the coffee room of his clinic. There he heard an ...

CNN — Bill Jenkins had already started a promising career in public health in the mid-1960s when he learned about one of the darkest chapters in American medical history: the Tuskegee syphilis ...

Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea pigs, ...

*Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who courageously unveiled one of the most notorious medical research scandals in U.S. history, has passed away at the age of 86. Buxtun, who succumbed to Alzheimer’s ...

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NEW YORK (AP) - Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

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