The infamous Tuskegee Study.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

The Infamous Gusset Plates

The collapse resulted in the media’s search for immediate answers to the following two questions; why did the bridge collapse and who is to blame? Speculative answers to the first question were proposed by the “Average Joe” and structural engineering experts alike, and involved the usual suspects; the growth from microscopic to catastrophic lengths of undetected cyclic load-induced fatigue crac...

The infamous upper tail

Let Γ be a finite index set and k ≥ 1 a given integer. Let further S ⊆ [Γ]≤k be an arbitrary family of k element subsets of Γ. Consider a (binomial) random subset Γp of Γ, where p = (pi : i ∈ Γ) and a random variable X counting the elements of S that are contained in this random subset. In this paper we survey techniques of obtaining upper bounds on the upper tail probabilities P(X ≥ λ + t) for...

Racism and research: the case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

In 1932 the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) initiated an experiment in Macon County, Alabama, to determine the natural course of untreated, latent syphilis in black males. The test comprised 400 syphilitic men as well as 200 uninfected men who served as controls. The first published report of the study appeared in 1936 with subsequent papers issued every four to six years through the 1960s. ...

Listening to narratives from the Tuskegee syphilis study.