Research began to be ethical after the end of World War II. the Nuremberg Code was created and signed, according to which it was forbidden to harm the health of a person who took part in the research.
Until that time, scientists were not afraid to conduct experiments on prisoners or other people who fell into their hands. Such research often ended for the victim very poorly.
Further in our article, 10 terrible scientific experiments on people in history are presented.
10. Three Jesus of Ypsilanti
This experiment took place in 1959 in the USA in one of the Ipsilanti hospitals. Its essence was to bring together three mentally ill people who imagined themselves to be the same person.
Dr. Rokich led the study, it occurred to him to conduct it, since years earlier he had watched the conversation of two women who thought they were Virgin Mary, subsequently one of them was cured of her ailment.
The scientist decided that by putting together men who consider themselves to be Jesus Christ, he will be able to cure at least one of them.
During the study, the doctor watched his wards for a long time, corresponded with them on behalf of other people. In 1961, the experiment was completed, it did not bring success, patients did not abandon their ideas.
9. Project "Aversion"
This project was top-secret, carried out in military hospitals in South Africa. His goal was the destruction of homosexuality. It lasted from 1971 to 1989, about 900 people became its victims.
Lesbian subjects underwent drug, shock, and other types of therapy. They even resorted to such radical methods as sex reassignment surgery and chemical castration.
The head of this terrible experiment was Dr. Aubrey Levin. The project did not bring the desired results, it is impossible to change the sexual orientation of a person by force.
8. Eye color experiment
This experiment was conducted in 1970 among third-graders in order to show children in a visual way what discrimination is.
The teacher divided them into groups according to the color of her eyes and suggested that students with brown eyes be treated with disdain, they were deprived of games in the gym, they were tied to the neck of the ribbon, they became quiet and clogged.
Other children, on the contrary, began to show arrogance. Then the teacher switched the roles of the students, and the brown-eyed began to feel bad about children with a different eye color.
The next day, she stopped the study and invited the children to make peace. For such an experiment, she was fired from work, and her parents bombarded her with angry letters.
7. Research on schizophrenia UCLA
Its essence was the use of drugs over schizophrenia patients that were not fully understood. They gave permission for such projects, but provided that if the subjects began to feel much worse than they were before taking the drugs, they should immediately be stopped.
Some scholars were embraced by the idea of curing schizophrenia, which continued to give the patient medications no matter what. As a result of such studies, several people died, and some committed suicide, for example, jumping from the roof.
6. Milgram experiment
Psychologist Milgram conducted a study in order to find out how much pain one person can cause another if he is asked about it.
During the experiment, one participant was offered to learn words by heart, and if he made a mistake, the other participant had to hit him with an electric current.
Of course, the role of the first experimental was played by an actor who was not really shocked, he just screamed at the touch of a button. But at the same time, the psychologist noted that the second participants continued to press the button, even if they were begged to stop it.
5. MK-ULTRA Project
The study was launched in the 1950s. Its essence was to study the state of mind of a person, the effect of psychotropic drugs on him.
The subjects did not know that they were being injected with drugs. The subjects were people of different categories, in addition to prisoners, doctors could also take part in the project.
The study was conducted under the control of the CIA. It is assumed that it lasted until the 1960s. In the 1970s The MK-ULTRA study guide tried to destroy the documentation that described the experiments.
4. Stanford Prison Experiment
The experiment was conducted in 1971 under the guidance of psychologist Philip Zimbardo. His goal was to study the human reaction to the restriction of freedom.
He divided Stanford students into prisoners and jailers. The "criminals" were put in a room equipped with a prison. The guards also began to play their part.
However, the subjects quickly got used to their positions, and dangerous experiments began to occur during the experiment.
For example, jailers almost immediately began to show sadistic tendencies, and the "criminals" received psychological injuries. The study had to be stopped.
3. Nazi experiments with freezing
Few people have not heard of the terrible atrocities that people in Nazi camps were subjected to. In one of the experiments related to the field of medicine, information about hypothermia was obtained.
During research, people were dipped in very cold water, after which they were sent to frost.
2. Research by Dr. Mengele
The Nazi doctor conducted experiments on tens of thousands of people, he independently selected victims for them. The main essence of his methods was to reduce the birth rate of other nations and increase the birth rate of the race "Aryans".
He performed sterilization without anesthesia, irradiated people with X-rays, and especially liked to conduct experiments on twins.
1. Experiments of Detachment 731
The detachment was created in Japan, led by Shiro Ishii. People in his team conducted research on bacteriological and chemical weapons, as well as experiments on people. Their doctors amputated their victims body parts, infected with sexually transmitted diseases to study their course.