11 Dangerous Experiments You Won’t Believe Were Conducted By People

Great accomplishments have demanded sacrifice. Whether it is the sacrifice of time, love or health.

But sometimes, some experiments cross the limit of this decency of sacrifice. Beyond this, it becomes inhuman because the people doing these experiments deliberately bring innocent people into the scenarios and end up damaging their lives permanently.

Some of these experiments are in the name of science, and some just because the people who led the experiment were sick, sick people.

1. CIA’s attempt to control people’s mind – Project MKUltra

A study to learn how to break the mind of a prisoner and to achieve total mind control, project MKULTRA was highly unethical.
In the experiments the CIA –
1. Gave high doses of LSD to prisoners, prostitutes, military personnel, regular citizens without their permission or consent.
2. Hypnotized the patients to learn what role anxiety plays in interrogation.
3. Studied the effects of electroshock to break a person’s will under interrogation.

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2. The experiment where racism and bad medical practice mixed

The Tuskegee University in Alabama was set up to accommodate and educate African-American (black) people. The United States Public Health Service (PHS) was responsible for learning about and finding cures to new diseases.
Syphilis was one of them. The PHS enrolled 600 men from the Tuskegee University of which 399 had Syphilis and 201 didn’t for a study.

They weren’t told about the details of the study and the 399 weren’t told that they had syphilis.

They observed the patients while they suffered from the symptoms like fatigue, tumors, heart disease, paralysis, blindness, insanity, and death.

This experiment went on for 40 years before a whistleblower prompted the government to shut the program down. The danger here was, because the men weren’t told that they had an STD, they could have sexual intercourse with whoever they could, without any control.

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3. The World War 2 experiments conducted by the Nazis and Japanese

The Nazi doctors did horrible experiments on people who were imprisoned in the Concentration Camps. Some of these atrocities were –
1. Sewing together bodies of twin children to artificially create conjoined twins.
2. Injecting malaria into prisoners and then trying to come up with immunizations and cure.
3. Feeding prisoners with nothing but seawater to study the effects of dehydrations and starvation.

Then there was a military unit in Japan at the time called Unit 731 that committed the following atrocities –
1. People were deliberately infected with Gonorrhea and Syphilis.
2. Women prisoners were forcefully raped and made pregnant to learn how disease was transmitted from mother to children.
3. Humans were tied to stakes and flame throwers and chemical bombs were tested on them.

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4. The experiment on innocent children that left them scarred for life

22 orphans were picked for a speech therapy study by a Dr. Johnson of the University of Iowa. The objective of the study was to find the effect of feedback on the stuttering children. Half of these children were given positive reinforcement – that means they were complimented when they made improvements, and the other half were rebuked and belittled for stuttering.

The half that received negative feedback carried their speech impairment until late life – their stuttering was permanent.

The sick thing – There were children who didn’t stutter too. Dr. Johnson managed to find ways to “induce” stutter in their perfectly normal speech.

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5. Enrico Fermi – who made a nuclear reactor under a football field

Enrico Fermi, the scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, was responsible for building the first fully functional nuclear reactor called Chicago Pile 1.

The Catch – It was located under the stands of the football pitch of the University Of Chicago when it was first turned on.

Fun fact – The entire reactor was ambiently cooled – that means there was no way you could cool in emergency it if it went critical.

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6. When the American Government poisoned alcohol supplies, killing 10,000 people

This happened during prohibition when the then American president Coolidge wanted people to stop drinking alcohol altogether. The conventional way to make alcohol disgusting is to add a chemical that makes it smell or taste disgusting – like adding methyl alcohol. The process is called denaturing.

Turns out, the government added a bit too much and the whole bootlegged alcohol produce was lethal.

10,000 people died after consuming this alcohol.

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7. The EATR robot (Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot) that eats “biomass” to generate energy

The DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) worked on this robot that eats biomass to generate energy. This means that the robot doesn’t really have to depend on any human for energy at all. It is completely independent and can hunt for food/energy all by itself.

Also by the definition of biomass – anything biological – human, plant, etc.

You get my drift, right?

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8. The Demon Core experiment where a man played with Plutonium

Los Alamos researcher Louis Slotin was a scientist who studied on the criticality of the radioactive fuel – Plutonium.

He was once lowering a hemisphere of the metal Beryllium on radioactive Plutonium. And the screwdriver slipped and the Beryllium almost covered the Plutonium, making it achieve critical mass – the stage at which nuclear fission starts.

He flipped the cover to the floor to avert a disaster but got a lethal dose of radiation – which killed him in 24 hours.

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9. Project 4.1

The US Government tested a nuclear bomb on the island of Bikini Atoll. The bomb was of a much higher yield than what they expected and hence, the radiation fallout affected an area much larger than that they had expected.

The Marshall Islands were the closest to the test site, and the US Government conducted studies on its residents to know the effects of nuclear radiation.

The evil – They never let the island residents know about the effects of radiation poisoning. And the effects lasted generations after the tests were conducted.

Deformed babies, stillbirths, impaired growth were reported among their people.

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10. Experiment where 5 people stood under an exploding atom bomb

On July 19, 1957, five US Air Force personnel and one photographer volunteered to stand directly below the detonation of a 2 kiloton atomic bomb. Just to clear it up – the bomb was planned to detonate in mid-air, 3 miles above their heads.

This was done because the US Air Force wanted the US citizens to know that it was ok to counter Russia with nuclear weapons.

Yeah.

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11. And finally, the experiment we all partake in…

True dat Mr. Musk.

Most of these experiments came to light long after the files were declassified and the consequences of them were completely over.

How many such experiments are still being carried out today that we don’t know about?

Do you think scientists around the world still carry out experiments that are unethical and harm people and animals amounting to cruelty?

Let us know in the comments.

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