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Lets dive into the history of unethical human medical experimentation in the United States. Our history is littered with unethical medical experiments being conducted by both the US government and other scientists, and the sad thing is most people are completely ignorant on just how much was done. In the interest of fairness, we did gain a lot of medical info from these things, but they're still unethical as fuck. In no particular order here are 50 of them

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1932-1972: The Tuskegee Syphilis experiment Hundreds of poor African American men that had syphilis were left untreated by the US government. They weren't told they had syphilis, it was deliberately hidden from them, if they were told it could've been treated and many would've probably lived. Unlike later experiments in central America, the government didn't infect the men with syphilis, they just lied about the infection once the men had it. The government wanted to test how the disease spread when left untreated. Almost all died to the disease or complications from it. Of the original 399 men, only 74 of the victims were still alive in 1972 at the experiments conclusion. 59 of the men's family members (wives and children) ended up becoming infected with syphilis.

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1913-1951: the San Quentin prison testicle human to human and animal to human transplantation experiments (it's as bad as it sounds). Dr. Leo Stanley, chief surgeon at the San Quentin Prison, performed a wide variety of experiments on hundreds of prisoners at San Quentin. Many of the experiments involved testicular implants, where Stanley would take the testicles out of executed prisoners and surgically implant them into living prisoners. In other experiments, he attempted to implant the testicles of rams, goats, and boars into living prisoners. Stanley also performed various eugenics experiments, and forced sterilizations on San Quentin prisoners. Stanley believed that his experiments would rejuvenate old men, control crime (which he believed had biological causes), and prevent the "unfit" from reproducing.

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1952-1972: Project MKULTRA . The CIA conducts hundreds of experiments on American citizens in order to test various methods of mind control. CIA Director Helms destroyed most of the documents, but what we do know was bad. The unibomber was one of the victims of MKULTRA. The project also led to at least one suicide. Hundreds of people were given LSD without their consent. It's too much to go over here. Very interesting read if you have some time.

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1908 three Philadelphia researchers infected dozens of children with tuberculin at the St. Vincent's House orphanage in Philadelphia, causing permanent blindness in some of the children and painful lesions and inflammation of the eyes in many of the others. In the study they refer to the children as "material used"

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1911 Dr. Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research injected 146 hospital patients (some of whom were children) with syphilis.

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1906: US army infects Filipinos with the bubonic plague . U.S Army doctors in the Philippines infected five prisoners with bubonic plague and induced beriberi in 29 prisoners; four of the test subjects died as a result. In 1906, Professor Richard Strong of Harvard University intentionally infected 24 Filipino prisoners with cholera, which had somehow become contaminated with plague. He did this without the consent of the patients, and without informing them of what he was doing. All of the subjects became sick and 13 died.

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1941 at the University of Michigan, virologists Thomas Francis, Jonas Salk and other researchers deliberately infected patients at several Michigan mental institutions with the influenza virus by spraying the virus into their nasal passages (so the guy who created the Polio vaccine experimented on mentally ill patients. Won't see that in the history books).

Source: Meiklejohn, Gordon N., M.D. "Commission on Influenza." in Histories' of the Commissions Ed. Theodore E. Woodward, M.D., The Armed Forced Epidemiological Board, 1994

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1937-45: Unit 731 . NOT CONDUCTED BY US . It was conducted by the empire of Japan unit 731 is quite possibly the most brutal, horrific chapter in the history of war. Over 3000 deaths. You can't make up the horrible things these "scientists" did to their chinese, korean, and American PoW victims. Their crimes are too numerous to go over here, ranging from vivisections on living subjects, to biological warfare experiments, to the body's tolerance for mutilation and torture. Read up on them if you want your day ruined. I've included them on this list because the US government pardoned the scientists that conducted the 731 experiments after the war, they wanted the information gained from the extremely unethical human experimentation. The victims of 731 saw no justice.

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1940s: The Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study was a controlled study of the effects of malaria on the prisoners of Stateville Penitentiary near Joliet, Illinois, beginning in the 1940s. The study was conducted by the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago in conjunction with the United States Army and the State Department. For reference on how unethical these types of studies were, the Nazi researchers on trial for war crimes at the Nuremberg trials used Statesville as part of their defense to point out the hypocrisy of the US trying them for experimenting on prisoners while we were conducting experiments on our own prisoners. (really the only difference between US government scientists in the 30s and 40s and Nazi government scientists in the 30s and 40s was that they got caught and put on trial for what they did. Our stuff was covered up until decades after the fact. Japan was on a higher level than everyone, but no country was innocent.)

(Annas & Grodon 1995 p267. Hornblum 1999 p76)

46-1948 Guatemala syphilis experiments , U.S. researchers used prostitutes to infect prison inmates, insane asylum patients, and Guatemalan soldiers with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases, in order to test the effectiveness of penicillin in treating the STDs. ~700 victims were infected because of the studies. In 2010 the US officially apologized to Guatemala for the studies.

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1950: The U.S. Navy sprayed large quantities of the bacteria Serratia marcescens – considered harmless at this time – over the city of San Francisco. Numerous citizens contracted pneumonia-like illnesses, and at least one person died as a result. The experiment was meant to simulate a biological attack on a US city. Serratia tests were continued until at least 1969 (which means they knew for 19yrs it caused sickness, but were like "oh well")

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Mid 1950s. The US army sprays poisionous zinc cadmium sulfide in poor black st louis neighborhoods as part of a biological contamination experiment to test how it'd react in a population. Confirmed in 1994 that St Louis was chosen because it was similar to a Russian city. Multiple children born during the timespan die due to strange outbreaks of cancer

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1950 Dr. Joseph Stokes of the University of Pennsylvania deliberately infected 200 female prisoners with viral hepatitis. (Hornblum 1998 p91)

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