Who Dares to Speak Up?
By Marc A. Edwards, Carol Yang, Siddhartha Roy
A federal agency allowed unethical experimentation on Black men for four decades before someone finally decided to blow the whistle.
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July-August 2021
Volume 109, Number 4
Page 238
Being a whistleblower can be lonely. The public opposition to authority that it requires often results in assaults on one’s reputation. Weathering such assaults is an ordeal—one that the three of us have experienced firsthand while playing prominent roles in the effort to expose unethical behavior by government agencies that led to the poisoning of public water systems in Washington, D.C., and Flint, Michigan.
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