Many of the researchers responsible for the most notorious abuses in recent medical history — the Tuskegee syphilis study, the Willowbrook hepatitis studies, the Cincinnati radiation studies, the Holmesburg prison studies — were celebrated with professional accolades even after the abuses were first called out.
Many of the most egregious ethical abuses in recent decades have taken place in medical centers with prominent bioethics programs, such as the University of Pennsylvania, Duke University, Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, as well as my own institution, the University of Minnesota.
Source: Carl Elliott, New York Times