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• From purposefully infecting people with STD’s to developing the perfect poison we
look at 15 horrific human experiments. 15 – Stanford Prison,
• What happens when you take a bunch of students and play prison down in the psych
buildings basement? This horrible experiment is what.
• Stanford University conducted the experiment to see what psychological behaviours would
happen with some of the students assigned as guards and the others well prisoners. Turns
out that power went to the heads of guard students and they went all *** on the others.
• Two students were removed early suffering from psychological trauma and eventually the
experiment was deemed “too *** up” for a renowned university to continue.
14 – Project 4.1, • Back in the dawn of the atomic age the
USA were testing nukes like they were candy, but surely they were responsible about it
right? • Turns out there was a few small islands
downwind from the famous Bikini Atoll site that were being exposed to fallout and instead
of warning them the US military saw it as great way to just sit back and see what radiation
did to humans. • Doesn’t take a nuclear physicist to
tell you what happened to the islanders, with side effects lasting generations. But hey
at least they learned fallout is bad. The only fallout humans should be exposed to is
on a games console. 13 – J. Marion Sim’s Gynaecological Operations,
• Take the father of gynaecology and the racist attitudes of the 19th century and you
have a recipe for terrible atrocities against other humans.
• “treating” slave women who had suffered traumas to their genitals, Sim would perform
many new medical surgeries without anaesthetic as he deemed the procedure “not painful
enough to need it”. • I’m sure if someone were sowing Sim’s
ball sack back together he would certainly want some damn painkillers but hey these were
just slaves so that made being an *** okay. Oh and it’s for science after all.
12 – The Monster Study, • Finally a study that answers the question,
can you raise a child evil enough to be such a monster that they would then conduct this
experiment? • Well almost, basically researchers at
the University of Iowa took a group of orphans and gave positive speech therapy to one group
and negative speech therapy to the other. Basically meaning they took normally speaking
children and told them they had a stutter. • So other than flat out abusing orphan
children the study also left them with speech problems for the rest of their lives. We all
know who the real monster of the study is riiight.
11 – Irradiating Black Cancer Patients, • Another amazing experiment birthed from
the horrors of the nuclear arms race. Did I say amazing? I mean awful.
• Fearing the prospect of US citizens being poised by radiation in an atomic attack, Dr.
Eugene Saenger from the University of Cincinnati experimented with exposing 88 poor cancer
patients who mostly were black. Oh and they told them that this was a possible treatment
for their cancer. • At least a quarter of the patients died
from radiation poisoning and the rest were left with now suffering radiation sickness
as well as still having cancer. But again at least we learned radiation is BAAAAD.
10 – Irradiating Soldiers, • But are you sure radiation is bad? Because
I’m still not convinced, I think we should test it on another group of unsuspecting victi-
I mean patients. • Much earlier though, during the Manhattan
Project, it’s reported that US scientists secretly injected a number of soldiers with
both uranium and plutonium in order to test just what the hell it would do floating around
the body. • Apparently only 5 of the 18 subjects lived
more than 20 years after having weapons grade surplus forced into their bloodstream. But
I’m sure that’s just a coincidence right? 9 – Infecting Guatemalans with STD’s,
• Alright guys we need to know if penicillin really is the cure for syphilis, so let’s
turn loose some prostitutes in a Guatemalan prison.
• At least that’s what some evil *** thought was the best way to observe the effects
of syphilis and its treatment. 1,500 of the Guatemalans who were purposefully infected
were not given any treatment. Y’know so researchers could observed the difference
between them and those being given treatment. • But that’s only a third of the people
infected so that’s just fine. It’s not like 80 people died from syphilis…
8 – “The Chamber”, • Ah the cold war, the threat of war means
is alright to test poisons on prisoners yeah? At least in Soviet Russia it was.
• Taking gulag prisoners and exposing them to a number of different poisons like Ricin
and Digitoxin was all in the day to day for those in The Chamber. Soviet Secret Police
were searching for a poison that would be totally undetectable and killing all those
prisoners did eventually give it to them. • C2 as it was called would kill within
15 minutes and according to witnesses would somehow cause the victim to become shorter.
I feel like the Russians made C2 up just to justify all the prisoner poising.
7 – MK Ultra, • Meanwhile what were the CIA doing during
the cold war? Sending people on mind control drug trips of course!
• MK-ULTRA is a pretty well-known and almost mythical experiment where the CIA gave lots
of people LSD without telling them and then sitting back and watching the resulting trip.
One operation had the CIA setting up fake brothels and then drugging prospective clients.
• There’s a lot more but these are just some of what wasn’t destroyed when the program
was shut down. While slipping some LSD may not be the most evil thing on the list we
know it was just the tip of a seedy and drug fuelled iceberg.
6 – The Aversion Project, • Don’t want homosexuals in your army?
Well South Africa worked out the most diabolical way to be a homophobe.
• Using army chaplains to flush out homosexuals, the project then would send them to a hospital
where they would be subject to electroshock and chemical castration to cure them. And
if that didn’t work they would forcibly change the sex of the person before sending
them back into the world. • There’s no words for how ridiculous
this is, you couldn’t just discharge homosexuals from service? Sure that’s still intolerant
but it’s better than surgically altering someone’s *** identity, talk about a
dishonourable discharge….. 5 – Tuskegee Syphilis Study,
• So remember how well the last time an experiment went involving Syphilis? Well this
one went much much worse. • See instead of treating some of the people
this study was just “let’s see what happens with no treatment” and again all the patients
were black males. In fact the patients were told they had “Bad Blood” meaning that
they spread syphilis to others, including their future children.
• Nice work guys, hell even one of the doctors who was involved in Guatemala joined the Tuskegee
experiments because I guess he hadn’t killed enough people with STD’s yet.
4 – North Korean Prison Camps, • Oh North Korea. From your state mandated
haircuts to your constant threat of using nuclear weapons, what terrible things could
you be up to? • Though little information is known due
to North Korea being secretive as all hell, scientists that have defected to the west
have told stories about testings of poisons on many Korean prisoners. Including feeding
them poisoned cabbage for….reasons. • C’mon guys if you are going to poison
someone with food at least make it good food, make them a poison soup or something.
3 – Testing Agent Orange, • Got a poison you want to spray on your
communist enemies but don’t know what exactly it will do? Just test on prisoners because
no one cares about them right? • Agent Orange is an herbicide that the
US wanted to use to kill off parts of the dense Vietnamese jungle but needed to know
what it would do to skin. Enter Dr. Albert Kligman who injected 468 times the recommended
amount into the skin of American prisoners. • This caused the prisoners to break out
in the worst acne in history, along with pulsating cysts on their genitals. I’m sure that’s
exactly what the US military needed to know. 2 – Unit 731,
• War seems to bring out the worst in governments and if that war is World War II then it’s
like human experimentation Christmas. • Under the Imperial Japanese rule, Unit
731 conducted a number of horrific experiments that included vivisection of living pregnant
women, freezing people’s limbs, amputating limbs and attaching them to other places and
testing flamethrowers as just some of the things done under the command of Shiro Ishii.
• Weirdly Ishii was given immunity by the Americans for the information gained in the
experiments and he lived to a ripe old age. Well that’s great, was cutting open pregnant
women not seen as a war crime or something? 1 – Nazi Concentration Camps,
• Well we had to get to the Nazis eventually and no doubt do they take the number one spot
for evil and horrific experimentation. • Under the care of Dr. Joseph Mengele,
the Nazis also conducted experiments with freezing living people, live weapons testing
and wound simulation. By simulation we mean creating a wound on a prisoner and then throwing
in broken glass. On top of this was sowing twins together to see if they would merge
together to become conjoined twins. • While both Unit 731 and the Nazis are
pretty much on par these experiments were pretty pointless, did Hitler really need to
know how to make conjoined twins? How was that going to win the war?