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In September 1932, Public Health Service officials recruited 600 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, to receive treatment for “bad blood.” The men had no idea they had become unwitting participants in one of the most controversial medical studies in recent ti
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During their last meeting, the proceedings were so chaotic that the building renter simply shut off all the lights.
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The coincidence that Corona happens to be the patron saint of epidemics or infectious diseases seems a little fishy.
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