Peter Buxtun, whistleblower who exposed Tuskegee syphilis study, dies aged 86 | US news

Peter Buxton, the whistleblower whose work known as the Tuskegee Study exposed how the US government denied hundreds of black men in rural Alabama treatment for syphilis, has died. He was 86 years old. Buxton died of Alzheimer’s disease on May 18 in Rocklin, California, according to his lawyer, Minna Farnan. Buxton is revered as […]