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A subject of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment has his blood drawn, c. 1953.. Numerous experiments which were performed on human test subjects in the United States in the past are now considered to have been unethical, because they were performed without the knowledge or informed consent of the test subjects. [1]
Other experiments included: experiments on twins (such as sewing twins together in attempts to create conjoined twins), [20] [21] [22] an experiment in repeated head injury which drove a boy insane, [23] experiments at Buchenwald where poisons were secretly administered in food, [10] experiments to test the effect of various pharmaceutical ...
One 1979 Washington Post news story discusses open air experiments in the Tampa Bay area involving the release of pertussis, or whooping cough, in 1955. State records show that whooping cough ...
The videos feature various experiments and demonstrations of the elements, some too dangerous to be performed in a classroom. [ 5 ] [ 8 ] Though the presenters take appropriate precautions when doing such experiments and provide adequate warnings, some scientists have criticized the dangerous experiments fearing people might try them at home ...
The experiment aimed to illustrate periodic trends in the alkali metal series. It showed the violent reactions of metallic sodium and potassium with water, in which the hydrogen produced subsequent explosions, and intended to demonstrate the even greater reactivity of rubidium and caesium by dropping them into a water-filled bathtub.
The cover to the Project 4.1 Final Report, "Study of Response of Human Beings Accidentally Exposed to Significant Fallout Radiation." Project 4.1 was the designation for a medical study and experimentation conducted by the United States of those residents of the Marshall Islands exposed to radioactive fallout from the March 1, 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini Atoll, which had an ...
On September 20, 1950, a US Navy ship just off the coast of San Francisco used a giant hose to spray a cloud of microbes into the air and the city's fog.
Deadly Experiments was a documentary aired on Channel 4 in 1995 as part of their True Stories series. It was produced by Twenty Twenty Television and featured several US and UK based research projects conducted in the 1950s and 60s which involved radioactive administration to humans.