"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a mystery and unraveling it takes a lot of effort and our scientists are willing to take em.
But, how far are they willing to go in order to find out the mysteries? is nobody knows?
History of science has many unsettling findings but the path they took to find those finding are also worthy of knowledge.
Success goes out to those who are willing to take the risk and our scientists are never too afraid to.
Although sometimes they went a little too far with their curiosity and did inexplicable bizarre things that humanity wholeheartedly is ashamed of.
Everybody knows about the Russian Sleep Experiment but we still have a hard time wrapping our heads around its origin.
There are people who claim it happened but the proof of it's happening is not known to us.
Although as per the reports of Wikipedia, it's nothing but a creepy past with an unknown origin.
And if you believe this is the worst that humanity has witnessed then this list will try to topple that.
Nazi Medical Experiments:
The world wasn't a very good place to live during the Nazi era. With all of the Holocausts and world wars going on, It all felt like crushing down on humanity, where it was almost really hard for us to live.
Where everyone was involved in war and battles for supremacy, the medical camp of Nazi Germany was doing disturbing research in order to make the military more efficient.
Many experiments in the camps were intended to facilitate the survival of Axis military personnel in the field. In order to help Axis military soldiers survive in the field, many experiments were conducted in the camps.
For instance, at Dachau, medical staff from the German air force and the German Experimental Institution for Aviation tested prisoners at high altitudes to establish the highest point from which crews of damaged aircraft could safely parachute.
Other research studies focused on creating and testing medications and medical procedures for illnesses and injuries that German military and occupation forces would experience in the field. Researchers tested vaccines and antibodies for the treatment and prevention of communicable illnesses such as malaria, typhus, TB, typhoid fever, yellow fever, and infectious hepatitis on camp inmates.
Although we can talk about scientists like Hitler in length and will still not be able to cover them fully and the researches they have done. Many scientists fled after Germany lost the war and we still to this day don't have full information as to what the heinous crime they were conducting at that time.
Japan's Unit 731:
During World War II, the Japanese had a biological warfare research unit called Unit 731. They carried out a variety of cruel experiments on both living and dead prisoners of war, including vivisection, intentional infection with syphilis and the plague, forced rape, and pregnancy for use in other tests. At least 3,000 people were used as test subjects. No one lived. In 1995, an article from The New York Times featured interviews with members of the Unit (no members of the Unit were tried for their crimes, as the United States granted them immunity in exchange for giving them the data and agreeing to work for the United States on biological weapons research).
Takeo Wano, 71, a former medical staff member of Unit 731 who now resides in a city in northern Japan called Morioka, claimed to have once seen a six-foot-tall glass jar containing a Western guy who was pickled in formaldehyde. Since there were a lot of Russians living in the neighborhood at the time, Mr. Wano surmised that the man was Russian because he had been split in half vertically.
Testicle Transplant:
An American medical research study that took place in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948 and is infamous for its unethical testing on weak human populations. The goal of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of various drugs, such as the antibiotic penicillin and the arsenical agent orvus-mapharsen, in delaying the onset of symptoms after contracting specific sexually transmitted illnesses (STDs).
At the commencement of World War Two, American medical researchers were tasked with developing a successful plan for keeping soldiers who interacted with prostitutes from contracting STDs. The 1943–1944 Terre Haute prison experiments, which were conducted on willing inmates at a penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, served as a model for the tests conducted in Guatemala. The Terre Haute study, designed to investigate gonorrhea prevention methods, eventually fell short of its objectives due to challenges in infecting volunteers. As a result, evaluating various gonorrhea, syphilis, and chancroid vaccination strategies made up a sizable portion of the Guatemala studies.
Approximately 1,308 soldiers, prisoners, sex workers, and psychiatric patients, ranging in age from 10 to 72, were intentionally exposed to STDs during the study. Despite the knowledge that had been gained from the Terre Haute study and from other studies, the process of establishing infection with STDs still proved a difficult challenge in the Guatemala experiments.
Conclusion :
People have taken advantage of the concept of science to commit crimes that humanity will forever remember and be ashamed of.
In the name of research and development, we have looked past so many important things that we will forever regret.
I guess through this blog I am trying to convey this one message: whether you like it or not, people in power don't care about you and me.
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