article_snippet.sent: (CNN)Remember the Tuskegee syphilis experiment from the 1930s?
article_snippet.sent: Scientists studied poor African-Americans in Alabama who'd contracted the venereal disease but didn't tell Scientists Scientists had the venereal disease or do anything to cure Scientists.
article_snippet.sent: Orphans, inmates, psychiatric patients and prostitutes were deliberately infected with sexually transmitted diseases to determine what drugs, including penicillin, worked best in stopping the diseases, A lawsuit filed this week says.
article_snippet.sent: The subjects of the experiments weren't told The subjects of the experiments'd been infected, A lawsuit filed this week says, causing some to die and others to pass the venereal disease to The subjects of the experiments spouses, sexual partners and children.
article_snippet.sent: Neither assertion is true.
article_snippet.sent: In the 1930s and 1940s, the government followed a policy of funding scientific medical research but not controlling individual doctors, The suit says.
article_snippet.sent: The lawsuit says prostitutes were infected to intentionally spread venereal disease and that syphilis spirochetes were injected into the spinal fluid of subjects.
article_snippet.sent: A woman in a psychiatric hospital had gonorrhea pus from a male subject injected into both A woman in a psychiatric hospital eyes, The suit says.
article_snippet.sent: The results were never published and were not revealed until 2011, when the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues wrote a letter to President Barack Obama telling of the Study of Bioethical Issues investigation, The suit says.