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A 1953 article in the medical/scientific journal Clinical Science [110] described a medical experiment in which researchers intentionally blistered the skin on the abdomens of 41 children, who ranged in age from 8 to 14, using cantharide. The study was performed to determine how severely the substance injures/irritates the skin of children.
Unethical human experimentation is human experimentation that violates the principles of medical ethics.Such practices have included denying patients the right to informed consent, using pseudoscientific frameworks such as race science, and torturing people under the guise of research.
People cross the street in front of a University of California at San Francisco medical center in San Francisco on Nov. 30, 2020. A prominent California medical school has apologized for ...
A 40-year experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service withheld standard medical advice and treatment from a poor minority population with an easily treatable disease. The experiment targeted black male farmers who were told they needed to be treated for 'bad blood', [27] but who were, in fact, syphilitic. In addition to many ...
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Project MKUltra was a CIA-run human experiment program from 1953–1973 where volunteers, prisoners and unwitting subjects were administered hallucinogenic drugs in an attempt to develop incapacitating substances and chemical mind control agents, in an operation run by Sidney Gottlieb. [3] Numerous experiments were done on prisoners throughout ...
About 17 people die each day waiting for a transplant. New experimental methods of growing and tweaking organs could help. 5 cutting-edge medical experiments could expand our organ supply, from ...
William McBride (Australia), a physician who discovered the teratogenicity of thalidomide, was found by an Australian medical tribunal to have "deliberately published false and misleading scientific reports and altered the results of experiments" on the effects of Debendox/Bendectin on pregnancy. [131] [132] [133]