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RFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty.

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Staying silent is to be complicit in perpetrating injustice

“These researchers had deliberately withheld treatment for this group of poor, uneducated, black sharecroppers in order to document what eventually might happen to them. I became incensed. How could physicians, who were trained first and foremost to do no harm, deliberately withhold curative treatment so they could understand the natural history of syphilis?”