Survey: Conspiracy Theories Affect Birth Control Use Among Blacks

[The Straight Story]

Survey: Conspiracy Theories Affect Birth Control Use Among Blacks

A new survey suggests that conspiracy theories still affect the use of birth control by black men and women.

In the survey of 500 black Americans, only half believed that the government tells the truth about the safety and side effects of new birth control methods.

One-third of respondents to the telephone survey said that medical institutions use poor and minority people as "guinea pigs" to try out new birth control methods, said study authors Sheryl Thorburn of Oregon State University and Laura Bogart of the Rand Corp.

The findings are published in the August issue of the journal Health Education and Behavior.

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1. these were at least true in the past

The fears are understandable (if not grounded in fact).

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

2. Conspriracy fact is more like it

FDA has become a totally worthless agency. Instead of regulating, they do everything in their power to help the pharm's profits at our expense. If you trust any drug that doesn't have a long long history of being benificial then you trust the gov't and pharm too much. How many of the new drugs have had severe problems? How many more will be exposed over time. And history proves that blacks have been used as "guinea pigs" in the past...that is a proven fact...tuskogee experiment for one.