Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was A medical study that conducted between 1932 -1972 by United State Public Health Service. The main target of the experiment was hundreds of poor African American with syphilis and without syphilis. Most of these blacks had never been treated by a doctor in their entire lives. The United State Public Health Service came in the region, in Macon country and told them that they came for 'bad blood' test (Fourtner and Herried, 2000, P.2). None of these people who were under the treatment knew the true objective of the study. They were thinking that they are receiving treatment because of bad blood and also the people under experiment never knew about the side effects of the treatment and…show more content… 293). But we should consider the reason that why some people considered that 'bad science'. The reasons were because of not considering the moral values while conducting the experiment as Jones also had mentioned. In addition, the case study shows that in a value-free scientific study the study will be biased and will be affected by personal beliefs even if the scientists do not consider the contextual values while conducting scientific studies. As it has been mentioned that “It is almost universally accepted that the choice of a research problem is often influenced by the interests of individual scientists, funding parties, and society as a whole” (Reiss and Sprenger, winter 2017, section. 3.1). So, it means that scientist experiment should not be value-free and cannot. The reason that we need more of epistemic values is the cases such as Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment to reduce tension and simplify scientific theories to predicate the accuracy of a scientific decision making and its
