It’s episode 141 and the Sinister Sisters are thinking about teaching a community college course. Please turn to page one in the sinister syllabus! In today’s episode, Erin flips the script and covers a Sarah-themed topic - The Tuskegee Syphilis Study. In 1932, hundreds of black men diagnosed with syphilis volunteered for a study only to find out decades later that the researchers hadn’t been treating them even though a cure was readily available. We’re already pissed.

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(https://apnews.com/article/business-science-health-race-and-ethnicity-syphilis-e9dd07eaa4e74052878a68132cd3803a);(https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html);(https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study);(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study);(https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/history/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study)

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