Peter Buxtun died today at age 86 from Alzheimer's. Peter Buxtun is not famous but he should be. If you imagine that Nazis are the only ones to conduct horrific, lethal medical experiments on humans, I've got news -- the Shining City on a Hill (as Reagan called the US) did too. Peter Buxtun was the whistleblower who blew the lid off the Tuskegee Study. The Tuskegee Study was an infamous experiment conducted by the US Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 to study the effects of untreated syphilis on black men. 1972 is surprisingly recent for something like this to still be going on, and was only 8 years in the past when Reagan ran for president. 600 Alabama black men were told that they would receive free medical care but all they ever got were placebos. Buxtun's actions led to the Belmont Report, released in 1979, a year before Reagan ran for office. It is a foundational document in medical ethics, and established guidelines and regulations for human subjects research ...