Read: Allan M.Brandt, “Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskeegee Syphilis Study” and https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study; Charlotte Paul and Barbara Brookes, “The rationalization of unethical research: revisionist accounts of the Tuskeegee syphilis study and the New Zealand “Unfortunate Experiment”, Journal of Public Health (2015), 105:e12-219
Post: It seems impossible to justify the continuation of the Tuskeegee study after the discovery of penicillin, but it also seems a heavy lift to justify it in the first place.
Define racial science, and discuss how social bias was supported by scientific research.