RWIT

I am going to RWIT today!! That stands for the Student Center for Research, Writing, and Information Technology. Of course, if you take the whole acronym, SCRWIT, it ironically resembles "SCREW IT." Hahaha... I agree, I'm so ready to throw in the towel, so to speak.

I attended my Writing 5 professor's office hour, and I left with direction and confidence. However, when I actually began to write, that seemed to decline. Here's my first introduction paragraph:

The Tuskegee Study, an appallingly unethical study conducted by the government-endorsed Public Health Service on the effects of the late stages of Syphilis in black men. As it persisted for 40 years without clearly defined protocol, Tuskegee is a case study that teaches us what happens when informed consent is denied to patients – it grew out of control and produced disastrous results. There has been much debate about the morality of the PHS. Although doctors refuted accusations, the study was blatantly wrong, as it violated the Hippocratic oath established in ancient times and the Nuremberg Codes instituted in Germany while the study was being conducted. Much like Nazi Germany under Hitler, more and more scientists surrendered to collective thought, adopting the incentive of the majority while avoiding careful individual reason. The physicians completely disregarded the medical safety of their patients and were ignorant of the difference between rational selfishness, pursuing their own best interests, and irrational selfishness, infringing upon the wellbeing of others. What was the most atrocious element of the Tuskegee Study? By deliberately deceiving and exploiting the black men as merely scientific subjects, government betrayed the principles for which it was originally created. In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers wrote of “certain unalienable Rights, … Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”. The absence of knowledge that treatment would not be received lead to the unnecessary pain and death of the research subjects, which irrefutably abuses the legal rights in place for humans.

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