Cases of cruel and inhuman experiments

Human experimentation is a practice that has existed since ancient times. In the presence of a scientific discovery or in the event that it was necessary to test the validity of a cure, the man has destiny always appeal to the passage of the trial. Until the last century medical experiments were carried out without strict rules. It often happened that the investigator to test the effectiveness of their discovery, he felt even on their family or himself.

And if a time people were subjected to experiments rarely informed of the possible dangers, today, thanks to the development of strict guidelines based on sound ethical pricipi, people on which they are experiencing must be voluntary and adults, with the express exclusion of persons physically incapable to give their consent and minors. The margins of risk which should be subjected to this choice must also be greatly reduced.

The consent is required and must always be required, as it is the only expression that authorizes any medical act.

This consent may be revoked by the patient at any time. Today, the implementation of a trial has as a necessary condition of legality and "absolutely essential" the prior specific, free and informed of the person who will take part, while you can intervene without consent only to save the life or prevent serious harm to the person.

Today we will deal with relatively recent 5 cases of cruel and inhuman experiments, consisting in the use of involuntary human beings as guinea pigs.

Untold cases, the symbol of wickedness and folly sadistic man, who still (and always) are a SHAME to all mankind.

It 'just know not to forget. And not to repeat the same mistakes of the past. Here we go.





1. Experiments of the Nazis


During the Second World War in Nazi Germany were carried out many experiments on prisoners of several concentration camps. The apparent thrust of these inhuman experiments was to develop methods which would improve the chances of survival and recovery of the German soldiers in war and more to perfect the '"general interest of medical science." A distance of time, however, it was discovered that these cruel experiments pseudo scientific, brought no improvement to medical science except death and suffering of thousands and free thousands of prisoners (Jews, homosexuals, etc.).

Many Nazi doctors were even without any technical knowledge and competent vented their perversion on the poor and defenseless human beings, locked up in concentration camps. Medical experiments performed on human subjects in Nazi concentration camps were different. The most famous experiments related to rescue from great heights (conducted on prisoners of Dachau by Sigmund Rascher), burns and poisonings with phosgene and irpite, experiments with homosexuals, techniques and practice of sterilization in men and women, experiments twins and dysentery, tuberculosis and yellow fever, and many others. Operations without anesthesia, mutilation, injections of viruses such as leprosy or typhus, castration, sterilization, freezing and other unspeakable horrors.

The most heinous crimes and the most publicized were those charged to Dr. Mengele, Dr.-death, the dark angel of Auschwitz, which vivisection, stitched together to make Siamese artificial bled and injected with various substances (such as methylene blue) liquid in their eyes for the purpose of changing its color, more than 3,000 twins, of whom only 180 survived.

Remember the famous trial of a vaccine against typhus, carried out by Ding Schuler to Buchenwald, where 200 prisoners lost their lives on 500-guinea pigs.

Another method inhuman about the "conversion" of thousands of homosexuals, performed by Dr. Vaernet to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Here he was subject to an incision in the skin of the abdomen, then to implant a pellet containing male hormones. This ball was to ensure a yearly contribution of testosterone. The result was that 90% of the mice died within a few weeks due to the intervention, and despite this tragic result, all the others were taken by force equally in the infirmary, to be operated under the threat to be shot.

At Buchenwald he would secretly poison in the food and studying the effect of poisoned bullets while other "doctors" experienced the deadly effects of transfusion of different blood groups. Heinrich Bering even came to investigate the death by starvation. We can fill pages and pages of these crimes absurd but all, by now, is part of history and of his most sad for the human race, which should be mentioned every day to never forget the evil that man is capable of procreating.

2. 731 Unit


During the Second World War there have been two cases of inhuman experiments on human guinea pigs. The first one (point 1 on our list) trials of Nazi doctors in concentration camps, and the second has as its background the practical concerns Japan and Unit 731 (similar to those of the Nazis) made ​​by the Japanese army during the invasion China.

Unit 731 was responsible for some of the war crimes ever made by people.

The task was to experiment with Unit 731, a chemical and bacteriological tests, in order to get to build high-impact weapons to be used in the wars in place, the invasion of China, and in the future.

For the research activities of Unit 731, Japanese doctors belonging to this group, put in place a real practice of experimentation, using guinea pigs of Chinese prisoners of war and Western subjected to experiments that, at times, of scientific did not have much.

And the most shocking thing was that, after the war, none of these criminals paid, unlike their colleagues from the Nazis, for all that he did. On the contrary have been used for their entire life in the major pharmaceutical companies, making important career and paid handsomely.

Unit 731 was initially about Shito Ishii, a Japanese military and biologist, who established in 1932 in Harbin, China, a medical laboratory in which experiments were made ​​on the Chinese defined as criminals. But in later years would also open other "places of research." The experiments were carried out in these laboratories of cruelty, brutality, inhumanity and cruelty unthinkable, monstrous couplings, total blood transfusion of horse, electric shock, exposure to high doses of X-rays, vivisection (including pregnant women), inoculation of cholera and plague and then study the course.

To study the effects of venereal diseases, prisoners, men and women, were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via rape. The men that were used were called "maruta" that "piece of wood" and were seen as a number and nothing more. The historian Sheldon Harris, who wrote the book "Factories of Death" on the subject, even talk of 200,000 deaths.

Shito Ishii has never been tried nor sent to prison and died at the age of 67 with cancer of the throat. All the doctors had criminal immunity granted to them by the United States, in exchange for the communication of the results achieved in the work of the human guinea pigs.

3. Tuskegee case


In 1932, a large outbreak of syphilis, prevalent in rural communities in the south of the United States of America, forced the authorities to create a program of special treatment and specific for this disease, at the Tuskegee Hospital, the only hospital for people black existed at that time.

For this project, the leaders of the venereal disease section of the Public Health Service of the United States, decided to conduct a study on the evolution of syphilis study that lasted 40 long years (1932-1972). The aim of the researchers, therefore, was to study until the time of death, the subjects recruited to collect definitive data with the autopsy.

And so, in 1932, the U.S. Public Health Service recruited in Tuskegee, the county seat of Macon, Alabama, about 623 male citizens of African descent poor and semi-literate, for a study on the natural history of syphilis, providing medical examinations and blood tests free. Almost half of them were found to be positive, but no one was informed about the results of the examinations. All participants were told that they had "bad blood" (bad blood), a popular expression invented by black people of the place, to justify various physical ailments.

Treat these sick people would slow down and boycott the study objectives of the project and, therefore, it was decided to go ahead, on the same subject by studying the evolution of the disease, in the absence of any treatment. Over the years that followed, those guinea pigs were subjected to medical examinations continue, test and even lumbar punctures (without anesthesia) to complete the clinical appearance of neurological disease.

But the most shocking thing of all this degrading and outrageous story, is the fact that, after the discovery of antibiotics, the discovery took place between the late '40s and early '50s, none of these subjects suffering from syphilis were administered and offered, even to those who suffered from near death that is the last stage of the disease.

The study was called "the most infamous case of prolonged and deliberate violation of the rights of research subjects" and ended thanks to articles by a journalist, Jean Heller, published in November 1972, forty years after the start of the study.

4. Therapy conversion (South Africa)

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For white males in South Africa, in the years between 1970 and 1980 (during apartheid), military service was compulsory for all. But since homosexuality was seen as a disease and included among the offenses was, it was unthinkable to accept and integrate homosexual soldiers in the army in South Africa, and thus, anyone who was even suspected of having such an identity, was immediately recalled and sent to the notorious section 22 Military Hospital at Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria.

Li was subjected to inhuman different therapies that included, among others, chemical castration, sex change operations, psychiatry, administered electric shocks to the genitals of patients, the treatment of hormones, and even aversion therapy and many others medical experiments against professional ethics. just to prove that "the patient" could heal. It was widely practiced plethysmography in association with electroshock to administer electric shocks to the penis of the poor victim.

Most of the victims appear to have been young white males, between 16 and 24 years. Although the exact number is not known, according to estimates most valid carried out by former apartheid army surgeons, in the period from 1971 until 1989, were performed in hospitals at least 900 military operations forced 'sexual reassignment as part of a top-secret program which aims to eradicate homosexuality from the army.

The leader and creator of the study (here the photo above), Dr. Aubrey Levin, is currently "Clinical Professor" in the Department of Psychiatry (Forensic Division) at the University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine. He is also a partner in a private practice, and is part of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta.

5. Project MK ULTRA


This project for the American mind control, commonly known as MK ULTRA, he was ordained for the first time April 13, 1953 by CIA director Allen Dulles with the aim of opposing Russian and Chinese studies on the so-called mind control. Already in the 50s the U.S. government, through the CIA, funded studies and experiments on mind control. Other projects such as Project Chatter, and the Project Bluebird had already started before it in the United States.

There is evidence to show how ignorant people used as guinea pigs, are still abducted and subjected to covert operations, through the use of electroshock, chemicals (including LSD and other mind-altering drugs), and also by the inclusion of microscopic plants in their body, to erase the memories connected to the kidnapping and operation.

One of the aims of the project seems to have been to change the perception of the reality of some people, forcing them to perform acts without realizing it (for example, see the heads of state hostile to the United States or by creating unaware of the assassins). As a direct result of this program has also been a number of deaths. In the U.S., many victims of these experiments have officially protested by forming several associations.