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Participants in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study were never told that they had syphilis. Instead, the doctors and scientists said they had "bad blood." Find out what took place during this study, and the social and political consequences afterward.
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)