HORRIBLE EXPERIMENTS ON PEOPLE

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26 Mar 2024

triplets experiment

On July 12, 1961, a young single mother gave birth to quadruplets. The fourth baby died during birth. The healthy-born triplets were adopted by different families by the Louise Wise Adoption Center in New York, following the necessary procedures. Transactions, Dr. It took place under the control of a psychiatrist named Peter Neubauer .

The families to which the triplets were adopted were not randomly selected. The ways of raising children and the socioeconomic status of all three families were different from each other. He had no idea that all three families had adopted separated siblings.

Clinical psychologists led by Neubauer had deliberately set this up as an experiment, distributing many such siblings to different families.

The experiment came about in 1980 when identical triplet siblings accidentally found each other.

"We could have been together for 20 years, and they took that away from us," said David Kellman, one of the triplets. His brother Edward Galland committed suicide at his home in New Jersey in 1995.

It is unknown what Neubauer learned from the secret experiment. Because the findings of this experiment are stored in an archive at Yale University and cannot be opened until 2066.

This experiment also became the subject of the big screen. Director Tim Wardle depicted the lives of triplets in his 2018 film Three Identical Strangers.

Nazi experiments

Perhaps the worst experiments of all time belong to Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Mengele collected Jewish and Gypsy twins and experimented on them to create a perfect Aryan race. Mengele is held responsible for subjecting thousands of twins to brutal experiments, except for the captives whom he sent to the gas chamber and caused their deaths. These experiments included eye color and gender change surgeries .

The Nazis also used prisoners for many other experiments. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, some captives were subjected to freezing temperatures and low-pressure chambers for aviation experiments. Numerous prisoners were subjected to experimental sterilization procedures. Speaking to the Holocaust Museum, a woman named Ruth Elias said that Nazi doctors tied her breasts with a rope. By doing this, Elias said, the doctors wanted to see how hungry the woman's baby could stay. Eventually the child was injected with a lethal dose of morphine.

Some of the doctors responsible for these experiments were later tried as war criminals, but Mengele fled to South America. He died of a heart attack in Brazil in 1979.

Unit 731 in Japan

The Imperial Japanese Army conducted biological warfare experiments and medical trials mostly on Chinese civilians in the 1930s and 1940s. The number of deaths in these brutal experiments led by General Shiro Ishii under the name of Unit 731 is unknown.

According to a 1995 New York Times article, Historian Sheldon H. Harris estimates that as many as 200,000 people may have died.

Many diseases were examined in experiments for use in war. These included plague, anthrax, dysentery, typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Numerous crimes were committed, including the contamination of wells with cholera and typhoid and the spread of plague-ridden fleas throughout Chinese cities.

Former members of the unit told media outlets that prisoners were given poisonous gas and that some test victims were locked in pressure chambers until their eyes popped out. It is claimed that the US government helped keep these experiments secret in order to establish an alliance with Japan in the Cold War.

Surgical experiments on slaves

American physician J. Marion Sims, considered the father of modern gynecology, gained his fame by performing inappropriate experimental surgeries on slave women in the 19th century.

The doctor's most important achievement was the development of a surgical technique for the repair of vesicovaginal fistula (a tear between the vagina and bladder).

However, in these experiments, Sims operated on women without anesthesia. Anesthesia had just been discovered, and Sims believed the operations "weren't that painful," according to NPR.