William Carter “Bill” Jenkins, who once tried to put a stop the racist, unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s died on Feb. 17, in Charleston, S.C. at the age of 73 from complications of sarcoidosis, the New York Times reports. A government epidemiologist, Jenkins was working as a statistician at the United States Public Health […]
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