In 1972, Jean Heller published a New York Times article exposing the Tuskegee Trial. This article led to a public outcry, demanding the study be stopped, and a congressional committe to re-evaluate Biomedical studies and their approval. In class, we have read the article and made margin notes on this text.Heller had been tipped off by Peter Buxtun, a Public Health Services Venereal Disease Investigator. Buxtun contacted the press after the national regulating body for disease research, the Center for Disease Control, refused to call the study off in the late 1960s.
