History is full of darkness, and the history of science is no exception. All along, people have been conducting evil experiments in the name of "science".
We usually think of science as representing progress, wisdom, and exploration.
However, while much of science strives to make our world a better place, it also has a long and dark history. There are countless examples of scientists testing drugs, diseases, chemicals, and weapons on some of the most vulnerable populations, and today we're here to uncover seven of the most horrific and evil experiments in the name of science.
Homesburg Prison Experiment
The main subjects of this experiment were prisoners. In the mid-1960s, D. Albert Kligman conducted such experiments at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. The studies, funded by the U.S. Army, Dow Chemical and Johnson & Johnson, were designed to test the effects of Agent Orange on humans. The prisoners were injected with Agent Orange, so they began to develop chlorinosis, a skin disease similar to severe acne. The pain of the disease spread throughout the body, from the face to the groin, and the subjects were forced to suffer from this abuse and pain for a long time. The prisoners' illness was exchanged for a patent by dr. Kriegman, the head of the experiment, for the acne-treating drug Retin-A.
Chamber
The poison laboratory of Soviet agents, also known as the "Chamber of Secrets".
During the Cold War, prisoners were forced to conduct live experiments in a laboratory known as the "Chamber of Secrets." They are trying to develop an ideal chemical weapon that is tasteless and tasteless. Prisoners' food and drinks contained doses of mustard gas, digitalis toxin, ricin, and other deadly poisons. The trial successfully developed the super poison C-2, which can kill people within 15 minutes.
Stanford Prison Experiment
Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment in which some students played the role of prisoners while others would play the role of guards. The experiment took place in a makeshift prison in the basement of the Stanford Psychology Building.
The results of the experiment were quite extreme, with the guards soon showing a sadistic tendency, while the prisoners underwent brutal psychological torture. Two of the prisoners had to be taken away early, and the consequences of the project spiraled out of control and were eventually shut down.
Disgusted projects
In the 1970s and 1980s, South Africa's apartheid army forced gay soldiers to transgender, as well as other treatments to eradicate homosexuality. Suspected homosexuals will be taken to the Military Psychiatric Institute, where they will undergo trials of shock therapy, hormone therapy and, if none of these methods work, mandatory transgenderism. It's unclear exactly how many soldiers have suffered these forced transgenders, but an estimated number of as many as 900.
731
Unit 731, a secret biochemical warfare research and development unit of the Japanese Army, carried out numerous deadly human experiments during World War II and committed serious crimes against humanity. They amputated and reconnected human limbs to another person's body; they used living people as live targets for grenades or other weapons to study the power of explosive weapons; and people were forced to contract sexually transmitted diseases to study the effects of diseases on the body, and the atrocities against humanity in 731 are numerous.
Unfortunately, the commander of the experiment, Ishii, never got a trial for a crime, and he eventually died of throat cancer at the age of 67.
Nazi experiments
It is no surprise that the Nazis were on the list of the most notorious experiments in history.
Prisoners are forced to sit in ice baths for hours, or sit naked in the cold, in order to study the process of freezing in the human body and ways to restore body temperature. There are also many experiments on twins, and in order to study the similarities and differences in the genes of the twins, they force the twins to inject the chemicals that change the genes, and even stitch them together, trying to create conjoined twins. Of the more than 1,500 twin subjects on these tests, fewer than 200 survived.