African-Americans and Science

I was at a loss of words when Roland asked Rebecca "What do you know about African-Americans and science?" and she gave a laundry list of horrible experiments done on poor African-American communities. One of them being the Tuskegee syphilis study performed at the Tuskegee institute during the 1930's. They wanted to study how syphilis killed from the start of infection all the way up to the death of the individual. So to study this they recruited 100's of African-American men with syphilis and just watched them die slow, painful deaths and held out on giving them the right medical treatment to prevent their deaths. Around this time it had been known that penicillin could cure syphilis, but they still just watched them die like they weren't even human. This practice was extremely unethical. I thought doctors had to take a vow to do everything in their power to serve and save patience no matter what their ethnicity or social standard. The Tuskegee institute should compensate those families which they destroyed in this study and give out a public apology if they haven't already.