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There were worse things than the Tuskegee Experiment. Let's play a game of TRUE or FALSE 1. African-Americans were thrown into burning hot pits by white physicians seeking a cure for sunstroke. T or F? 2. In an attempt to develop a cure for typhoid and pneumonia, white doctors had injured/ sick African Americans submerged in boiling water to see the effects of extreme temperatures on the diseases. T or F? 3. In 1945, after a bone crushing accident, Ebb Cade a black truck driver, was secretly injected with plutonium to see the effects of a nuclear bomb on the body. T or F? 4. 1951-1953, the CIA and the US military released close to half a million mosquitoes infected with yellow fever and dengue fever into several black neighborhoods in Florida. The military wanted to find out whether the mosquitoes could prove to be an effective weapon of war that could be used to infect, incapacitate, and kill America’s enemies. 12 people died, mostly children. T or F? 5. Inmates at a prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were used as guinea pigs to test toothpaste, skin cream, hair dye, and soap for several pharmaceutical companies. They were also used to test radioactive, toxic, and mind-altering drugs for the US military. T or F? 6. Betwern 1932 to 1972 with the help of Black healthcare workers and physicians , white researchers were able to convince 600 African-American men in Tuskegee, Alabama, to participate in a study of the effects of syphilis on the human body. They were allowed to suffer thru the disease without treatment and subsequently and unknowingly infecting their wives and unborn children. Approximately 140 died as a result. T or F? 7. In the 1990s, medical researchers gave a banned diet drug, fenfluramine, to dozens of African-American and Hispanic boys, aged 6 to 10, to see, whether or not the drug could help predict if the boys were likely to become criminals as adults. The boy’s families were given $125 for their children’s participation in the study. T or F? Answers below..... 🤓 . . . . . . Every case is TRUE and documented. The use of Black people for medical experiments is no secret. We have been used as guinea pigs for medical experimentation by various American governments for centuries.