Tl:dr - A US government-funded study allowed African American men with syphilis to go untreated, long after cheap effective treatments were available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study I knew about this one (EVERYBODY should know about this one). But Natasha Tidd’s excellent book “A Short History of the World in 50 Lies” has a great chapter on this. In... Continue Reading →