Shocking experiments done in the name of science – Modern medicine has advanced far beyond what anyone could envision a few decades ago. We’ve devised a way to ‘switch off’ cancer cell growth, created nanobots that can be used to precisely deliver medication, and we’re contemplating a human head transplant as early as 2017.
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But these breakthroughs didn’t come easy; at every stage, a price was paid for all innovation. The head transplant scenario is feasible now because of a series of experiments done in 1970. Neuroscientist Robert White attached the decapitated head of a monkey to the decapitated body of another monkey.
This experiment actually worked… to an extent. The monkey head ‘woke up’ and stayed alive for over a day before dying. These days, organizations like PETA make sure tests like that can never happen again.
This leaves researchers scrambling for volunteers for clinical trials. Faced with a lack of volunteers, some committed researchers use themselves as guinea pigs. But this isn’t always the case; some scientists have resorted to tricking volunteers into participating. In other cases, they don’t even tell them they’re part of a study. The following are 10 sick scientific experiments, where the subject often had no idea they were being used.
10. Project 4.1
The detonation of the hydrogen bomb in Castle Bravo in March 1954, was supposed to be a secret. But the ensuing 15 megaton explosion led to it becoming the most significant radioactive contamination ever. Borne by the wind, residents of the nearby Marshall Islands were soon exposed to the fallout.
When the US government realized this, instead of ordering a mass evacuation, they chose to study the situation and see what developed. The effects were noticed at different speeds, based on individual proximity to the blast. For citizens closest to the blast, skin damage in the form of lesions quickly appeared and their hair fell out. Over the next decade, the rate of miscarriages and stillbirths went up then down.
But over a longer period, more kids were born with developmental problems and a higher rate of thyroid cancer. The blast also rendered the atolls completely uninhabitable. While the Americans claim the incident was an unfortunate accident, the island residents remain convinced that they were used as guinea pigs in a radiation ‘experiment.’
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