Dr. Irwin Schatz, the First, Lonely Voice Against Infamous Tuskegee Study, Dies at 83

April 21, 2015

(Washington Post) – It was 1964, and Irwin Schatz, a young Detroit doctor with a penchant for flipping through medical journals, had come across a headline that stunned him. He reread it several times, convinced that he could not be interpreting it correctly. But the title — “The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis: 30 years of Observation,” — didn’t change. Nor did its meaning.