tuskegee

Changing the way content is ranked by your private service is not in the same ethical territory as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

The Tuskegee expirement is one example of why the government shouldn't be trusted to do what is in the best interests of its citizens.

I guess you could read up on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, Belemont Report, Declaration of Helsinki and Nuremburg Code to learn more.

With your view we end up with things like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

During the mid-1900s and the The Tuskegee syphilis experiment?

From the Nazis to Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

If you have to reach back to Tuskegee to discredit government health standards like vaccination, hand washing, seat belts, etc., you're probably stretching a bit.

There are obviously others, like the Tuskegee syphilis experiment, for example, that demonstrate that large agencies sometimes work outside the boundaries of logical, empathetic human response.

Decades and centuries ago, many intelligent and educated people would argue that experiments on humans (like the Tuskegee syphilis study) are for the greater good, even if it it's at the expense of some certain group.

I agree that Facebook's experiment was ethically problematic, but comparing it with the Tuskegee Experiment is a wild leap of exaggeration, since there's no proof that Facebook did significant harm to any of its users.

Similarly to how during World War 2 when African American pilots were finally allowed to fly (The Tuskegee Airmen) they outperformed many other squadrons due to all the barriers put up ensured that they had the most dedicated, smartest and toughest pilots.

(I've been poking around for a copy of the Tuskegee Institute 1959 report and had seen that before I read your comment, I'm not angrily trying to refute you or anything like that.

The slate articles says: In 1959, Tuskegee defined its parameters for pronouncing a murder a “lynching”: “There must be legal evidence that a person was killed.

"from the horrors of Nazi medicine to the deliberate withholding of care from syphilis victims in the Tuskegee experiment" This is a deeply offensive comparison.

I can appreciate your frustration, but when you look at the history of things like the Tuskegee Syphilis Study or read a book like "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" the distrust becomes more understandable.

Tuskegee caused a dramatic change in how studies are run, with laws on informed consent and ethical requirements.

It's CalTech, not Tuskegee- Asian males are a large chunk of the population.

Tuskegee is what I think of when people try to argue that informed consent is unimportant.