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stephanie's avatar

This was horrifying but I appreciate your sharing it. It’s so important to tell these stories.

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Brooke Teegarden's avatar

Agreed!

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Elle R.'s avatar

Jfc

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christie's avatar

Terrifying

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Brooke Teegarden's avatar

I know ♥️♥️

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Bridget's avatar

Thank you. I’ll be reading this later.

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Brooke Teegarden's avatar

Thank you. It’s a tough read. ♥️

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John Lovie's avatar

Horrifying. I knew about Tuskegee but not Guatemala or Sing-Sing.

We're still living with a distrust of public health, especially in some African American communities.

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PermanentBacklog's avatar

Another, in a seemingly endless list, of heartbreaking, dehumanizing atrocities committed by this trash country. Thank you for writing this article, as horrible as it must have been to research.

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Amanda Forrest's avatar

This is such an interesting read Brooke. I had no idea about this particular “research.” It is difficult to read but it’s also SO important that we know our countries true history. Side note: your educational texts with men were epic!

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John Primm's avatar

And now I know more (again) and can't unknow it and we suck and I wish we sucked less than others, but the list is getting shorter and shorter.

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Diana's avatar

This post made me subscribe

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Kari L's avatar

Golly gee, I can't for the life of me imagine why anyone might have been less than cooperative to participate in such important scientific research!

Also, I'm still curious what all was considered epilepsy, because for a while there it seems to have been AWFULLY common compared to true idiopathic seizures. I'm guessing anything they labeled a "fit" might have been lumped in, whether behavioral/mental health or any number of physical conditions.

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Trav's avatar

This is one of the areas where I had done all the horror reading in advance, and it was just as horrible when you told it to the rude men. But you're good at it!

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Matthew's avatar

This is my favorite way to learn history

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Erin's avatar

The 22 year old lol

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Emmy's avatar

Okay wow. I’m glad I read it though

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Pim Clive's avatar

Love love love your approach to teaching history!!!!

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iamasynthesizer's avatar

Thanks for this. It’s really dark stuff the content of course. I appreciate how you bring some levity with the messages that is really brilliant. I will read more of your work thank you for sharing.

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