This experiment began in the 1920s and consisted of injecting what would be healthy black men in Alabama with syphilis, to test the effects of untreated syphilis. This experiment apparently breaks four separate ethical guidelines. The first is mandatory informed consent, the second is to minimize the risk of all participants, the third circumvents the avoidance of discrimination due to characteristics such as race, gender, age and the fourth refers to the negative impact on coercion ( ASHA, 2014, p.1). The experimenters of this study did not tell the men what they would be injected with knowing that there would be many risks for all participants involved. Furthermore, men were forced to participate in the experiment. The investigators would pay for the participants' burial and all healthcare costs for them and their family for the duration of the participant's life. In areas of Alabama this is an extremely strong incentive to participate in a study considering that most people had money for food and much less for healthcare and burial costs (Gray, 1998). Finally, the experimenter used black men who were poor only because of the race and socioeconomic status of the population. The Tuskegee experiments showed a blatant disregard for human life, as even when a cure was found, there was no attempt to cure the men involved (Gray, 1998). This experiment was supported by the entire research community and no one intervened until it was too late. Eventually, stakeholders and researchers gained funding and support from this experiment, but this did not happen until the 1960s. Many people were outraged and found the study extremely unethical, after the study's 40th year. At the time, there were no guidelines regarding informed consent like the revised ASHA Code of Ethics seen today. However, it was evident based on other researchers and