Reply #26: The difference is that at Tuskegee the patients were lied to.

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There was a cure available and they thought they were getting it. Instead, the disease was allowed to progress untreated just to see what it would look like. Here, there are two treatments. If it is true that no one knows which one is better, then the patients are not being put at risk. The only way to find out if one treatment is better than the other is to try both and check the results. There is no deliberate harm being done to either set of patients. Neither set of patients is being neglected.