Claiming Tuskegee

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

A New Tuskegee Experiment ?

August 15, 2013 BY Lewis Margolis and Gregory Margolis In a situation with unsettling similarities to the infamous "Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male," youth and college football players today are part of what amounts to a massive and unethical experiment in concussions. The Tuskegee Study violated basic bioethical principles of respect for autonomy (participants were not f...

Tressa: Claiming the Future

Unlike sequential programs, concurrent programs have to account for interference on shared variables. Static verification of a desired property for such programs crucially depends on precisely asserting the conditions for interference. In a static proof system, in addition to program variables, auxiliary (history) variables summarizing the past of the program execution are used in these asserti...

Review : Bad Blood : The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment

Bad Blood is a thorough and sometimes disturbing account of an experiment that ran in Macon County, Alabama from 1932-1971, involving about 500 rural black men and more than a few zealous medical scientists and physicians. Ironically, it began as a study to invoke more public health care for blacks, particularly in the treatment of syphilis, which was considered a major epidemic in the 1930s. T...

Framing and Claiming: How Information-Framing Affects Expected Social Security Claiming Behavior.

This paper provides evidence that Social Security benefit claiming decisions are strongly affected by framing and are thus inconsistent with expected utility theory. Using a randomized experiment that controls for both observable and unobservable differences across individuals, we find that the use of a "breakeven analysis" encourages early claiming. Respondents are more likely to delay when la...