By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the mid-1960s at a U.S. Public Health Service clinic in San Francisco, Peter Buxtun heard an unnerving story. An Alabama doctor had been reprimanded by the federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buxtun died from Alzheimer’s disease in Rocklin, California, on May 18, although his passing was only reported this week. He was 86. Peter Buxtun, a former employee of the U.S. Public Health ...

By Trip Gabriel Peter Buxtun, a whistle-blower who in 1972 exposed a 40-year government experiment to track the effects of syphilis in Black men in Alabama — who were neither told that they had ...