What did researchers do to the subjects in the Tuskegee syphilis experiment?
A)injected them with syphilis,so researchers could have newly established diseases to study
B)denied them newly available antibiotics,so researchers could study the natural course of the disease
C)injected them with substances that would intensify syphilis,so researchers could watch the progression of the disease
D)studied prisoners,reasoning that prisoners do not deserve to freely choose whether to participate in research

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In the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, researchers denied the subjects newly available antibiotics, so they could study the natural course of the disease. The subjects were already infected with syphilis at the beginning of the study, and researchers wanted to observe how the disease progressed and what its effects were on different parts of the body over an extended period of time. This unethical and dangerous study continued for over 40 years, even after penicillin became the standard treatment for syphilis in the 1940s.

What Did Researchers Do to the Subjects in the Tuskegee