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Whether during times of war or as a means of discovery, researchers and scientists have
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10.
Milgram Shock Experiment In 1963, Stanley Milgram sought to gauge just
how obedient people could be, basing his idea off of the Nazis that claimed they were just
“following orders.”
Forty participants were gathered and charged with shocking a third party whenever they
answered a question incorrectly that was posed by Milgram.
Though the person being “shocked” was an actor and no harm was being done, the subjects
believed they were administering up to 450 volts of electricity, especially as the recipient
was a rather convincing performer and begged for reprieve.
Though 35% stopped when the voltage was at its max, all 40 subjects heeded Milgram’s
orders up to 300 volts.
While no physical harm was done to anyone, Milgram’s experiment is criticized for the
mental anguish placed upon the subjects who responded as Milgram told them that they had
to.
9.
Stanford Prison Experiment Looking to test the effects of assigned social
roles on a personality, psychologist Philip Zimbardo designed a mock prison in the basement
of the Stanford University psychology building, complete with solitary confinement, and assigned
21 male students one of two roles – either a prisoner or a guard.
The experiment started with the “prisoners” being arrested at their homes without warning
and taken through the booking process before being held in the prison basement.
Only hours into the planned two-week trial, the mock prison guards started showing signs
of aggression and sadism towards the prisoners.
By day two, prisoners were blocking their cells with mattresses, causing guards to break
in, strip the prisoners naked, and remove their beds.
Within three days, one prisoner had to be removed after showing signs of deep depression
and, after another three showed signs of depression, the experiment was terminated.
8.
Project MKUltra Starting as early as 1953 and running until
1967, the Central Intelligence Agency had a program in place that tested the possibility
of mind control and brain-washing.
The agency sought to create means to disorient and confuse enemies, hypnotize subjects, and
even induce amnesia.
Many of the tests done during MKUltra’s lifespan were performed on lower class citizens
and included the administration of LSD, sometimes leading to the death of the subject.
Research for the program stretched over 86 different universities and institutions, each
one ultimately working towards the same goal and using the same unethical methods.
Other experiments were believed to have used electro-shock, heroin, sodium pentothal, and
a combination of barbiturates and amphetamines, which typically produced incoherent babbling
from the subject.
7.
The Guatemalan Experiments In October of 2010, Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton apologized to the nation of Guatemala for a 1940s epidemic of gonorrhea and syphilis
that spread through its people.
In an attempt to find and test a measure to prevent the disease from spreading throughout
its own military force, the United States sent Dr. John Charles Cutler of the Public
Health Service to intentionally introduce the diseases to the Guatemalan military.
After seeing success with soldiers, Cutler moved to penitentiaries and psychiatric hospitals,
where he continued to spread syphilis and gonorrhea.
By the time Cutler was done, upwards of 1,308 subjects were infected and, of them, only
678 received follow-up treatment.
6.
The Aversion Project During South Africa’s apartheid, there was
one group, in particular, that was pinpointed as being “curable.”
Thought to be subversive and identified as drug users, identified homosexuals in the
South African Defense Forces were forced to undergo a series of medical torture and experiments
to remedy their alleged affliction.
Heading the aversion therapy was Dr. Aubrey Levin, who resorted to electroshock, barbiturates,
hormone treatment, and even chemical castration on known homosexual soldiers.
Subjects were shown naked images of the same sex, shocked until their bodies couldn’t
handle anymore, and then shown a naked image of a member of the opposite sex.
When met with criticism, Levin claimed that these treatments could work on other groups,
including drug addicts.
In 2014, Levin was sentenced to 5 years in prison for sexually assaulting patients over
the years.
5.
Cancer Treatment Experiments During the 1960’s, Dr. Eugene Saenger of
the University of Cincinnati spearheaded experiments allegedly funded by the Pentagon that tested
high-levels of radiation on cancer patients, most of them being poor and black.
Critics of the experiments claim they were held to test how soldiers would respond to
nuclear battlefields but Saenger claims it was meant to determine radiation effects on
advanced cancer patients.
Regardless, a staggering majority of the patients reacted negatively to the 100 rads of Total
Body Irradiation, becoming violently ill shortly after.
By 1972, it’s believed all of Saenger’s patients had died.
Around the same time, Dr. Carl Heller was testing 650 rads of radiation on the testicles
of U.S. prisoners, essentially just to see what would happen.
For reference, a standard x-ray exposes patients to less than 1 rad.
4.
The Twins of World War II During the course of World War II, German
physician Josef Mengele earned the title “The Angel of Death” through his cruel and deplorable
experiments.
Of his more controversial were those he dedicated to twins.
Like some twisted Dr. Frankenstein, Mengele was known to turn pairs of twins into abominations.
Two twins that survived the experience, Eva and Miriam, talk about Gypsy children that
were sewn back to back.
Allegedly, Mengele had tried to create Siamese twins by conjoining blood vessels and organs.
Other experiments involved injecting hundreds of pairs of twins with Noma-disease causing
bacteria and injecting an unknown substance into the hearts of some just to dissect them
after they died.
3.
North Korean Experiments When Im Cheon-yong, former Pyongyang armed
forces officer, defected from North Korea, he did so with information that further shows
the darker side of the East Asian country.
According to Im, human experimentation was a regular occurrence in North Korea, specifically
performed on prisoners and mentally and physically handicapped children.
Im and other defectors have alleged that handicapped children are not forcibly taken, but purchased
from their parents for grains of rice.
Of the experiments Im was alleged to have evidence of, the worst included experimental
dissection and live testing of anthrax and dozens of other chemical weaponry agents.
2.
Dr. Shiro Ishii and Unit 731 By 1945, Dr. Shiro Ishii went from being a
Japanese microbiologist to a renowned surgeon general whose path was marred with blood and
human suffering.
During the last three years of World War II, Ishii oversaw operations at Unit 731, an experimental
POW camp which became the site of grotesque procedures.
Thousands of victims were enlisted as Ishii’s subjects and exposed to tests that involved
being shot, having limbs frostbitten and being placed in high-pressure chambers or centrifuges.
Others were dehydrated to near death, had organs partially removed, and became monstrosities
sewn back together for the sake of cruel science.
Dr. Ishii also released “plague bombs” on Chinese cities to test the effectiveness
of a planned attack on the western coast of the United States.
1.
Nazi War Experiments Nazis don’t often get praise for their sparkling
and kind mannerisms and for good reason.
While Nazi soldiers fought on the front line, other party members were using their expertise
in incredibly sadistic ways, performing unimaginable experiments on POWs.
Like Mengele’s twins tests, other Nazi doctors and researchers used subjects to experiment
with different poisons, including the use of poison bullets; testing the effects of
high altitudes in low-pressure chambers, only to kill those that didn’t die; and testing
different means of treating wartime wounds, including blood coagulation which required
subjects to be unwillingly injured.
Experiments were typically carried out at concentration camps on populations of Romani,
or Gypsies, Soviet POWs, and, of course, Jews by Nazi physicians including Eduard Wirths,
Adolf Pokorny, Wolfram Sievers, and Sigmund Rascher.