NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

In the early 1960s, Peter Buxtun was tracing sexually transmitted infections for the U.S. Public Health Service in San Francisco when he wandered into the coffee room of his clinic. There he heard an ...

Born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish father and Catholic mother, he sounded the alarm on an unethical study of Black men. In the early 1960s, Peter Buxtun was tracing sexually transmitted infections for ...

For nearly 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service left hundreds of Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., untreated for syphilis. It was part of a study that was only stopped after whistleblower Peter Buxtun ...