The Tuskegee Syphilis study is considered racist because

A. only one race was studied. 
B. it implied that only African American men had syphilis.
C. the doctors were White and the participants were Black. 
D. it hypothesized that African Americans and Whites were impacted differently by syphilis.
E. the research violated the Nuremberg codes regarding race. 


Answer: D

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