Experiments are needed to achieve more knowledge about an object and subject. However, there are a number of crazy experiments carried out 'in the name of science' and of course getting criticism from various parties.
The experiments were ethically violating and have been called the worst in history. Launching Live Science, here are five of them.
1. Separating the triplets
Between the 1960s and 1970s, clinical psychologist Peter Neubauer conducted secret experiments separating twins and triplets, causing them to be raised in separate families. David Kellman, one of the triplets, only found out about this 20 years later.
"We were stolen 20 years to be together," he said angrily.
To add to Kellman's grief, his twin, Edward Galland, died in 1995 by suicide. Plus, Peter Neubauer and Viola Bernard, who conducted the study, showed no sense of guilt and instead said that what they were doing was for the good of the children. The goal is for twins to develop their own personalities.
The study can't be published -- predictably because it's too cruel -- at least until 2066.
2. The Nazi Experiment
The Nazis used prisoners to test treatments for infectious diseases and chemical warfare. Others were forced into freezing temperatures and low pressure chambers for flight experiments. Countless prisoners were subjected to experimental sterilization procedures. Not to mention nursing mothers and their children, innocent babies were tortured and eventually injected with lethal doses of morphine.
Some of the doctors responsible for these atrocities were later tried as war criminals, but Josef Mengele who was responsible for this mad research fled to South America. He died in Brazil in 1979, of a heart attack. Like bad karma for him, his last years of life were haunted by loneliness and depression.
3. Japan's Unit 731
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, the Empire of Japan carried out biological warfare and medical "testing" on civilians in China. The forms of cruelty varied, from infecting wells with cholera, typhus, to lice, to torturing prisoners. Prisoners were forced to be herded in the cold, to determine the best treatment for frostbite.
It didn't stop there, a number of former members of the unit also testified to the administration of poison gas and the torture of being put in a high-pressure room. In fact, there are also prisoners who are operated on while conscious.
4. Surgical trials on slaves
J. Marion Sims is known as an obstetrician who often conducts experiments. Unfortunately, some of them are very controversial because they treat humans without humanity.
One of them is vesico-vaginal fistula research. The research was conducted on women with fistulas, which are tears between the vagina and bladder.
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The victim, who was a female slave, often wet the bed and was rejected by society. Sims also did without anesthesia, partly because of the new invention of anesthetics. In 1857, Sims deemed his research not painful enough to be found guilty.
Finally, in 1993, a University of Alabama professor in the Journal of Medical Ethics said Sims manipulated slavery for human experimentation. Research that harms its objects cannot be justified for any reason.
5. Tuskegee Research
According to the United States CDC, in 1932 the US Public Health Service conducted a study on the effects of untreated syphilis. The research involved 399 black men in Alabama, 201 of whom were in good health.
The respondents did not even know they were involved in research related to syphilis. They were only told they were being treated for bad blood, were not given medication even when penicillin was used as a treatment for syphilis in 1947.
Until one day, in 1972, a newspaper exposed this and said that the officials covered up the case. This crazy research is the worst study ever done by humans in history.