5 Terrible Human Experiments

All of us have always been afraid of evil and depravity, especially if it is an evil experiment performed by humans involving other humans. Horrific medical experiments in movies and television shows are common, and hard to avoid. A good portion of these are fictional and fabricated, but several are based on real experiments and torture carried out in the past.

Kamera
Prisoners were the victims in this deadly experiment. The intention was to produce a tasteless and odorless poison that couldn’t be detected post mortem. Prisoners were unwillingly brought to the secret laboratory of the Soviet Union known as Kamera, or “the cell”. These prisoners were given ricin and mustard gas containing substances, digitoxin, curare, and cyanide with meals and beverages as a medication.

Tuskegee Syphilis Study
This horrific medical experiment was conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1932. At the time treatment for syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that causes pain, insanity, suffering and ultimately death, was toxic and futile. Mercury was used as a treatment but mercury itself is a toxic compound that causes kidney failure, tooth loss, mouth ulcers, and death. A team of government funded doctors decided not to treat the disease to see if no treatment was better.

The Monster Study
A stuttering experiment carried on 22 orphan children in 1939 in Iowa later became infamous worldwide as the Monster Study. The horrific experiment was performed by his graduate student Mary Tudor. All the 22 orphans were split into two groups. One group was given positive therapy for their fluent speech other was given negative therapy and were criticized for their imperfection in speech. This result of this cruel and horrific experiment was the negative group suffering from negative physiological effects, and some of them suffering from speech problems for the rest of their lives.

Poison laboratory of the Soviets
The Poison laboratory of the Soviet secret services, was a covert poison research and development facility of the Soviet secret police agencies. The Soviets tested a number of deadly poisons on prisoners from the Gulag (“enemies of the people”), including mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and many others. The goal of the experiments was to find a tasteless, odorless chemical that could not be detected postmortem.

Project 4.1
This was designation of a cruel and horrific medial study performed on the inhabitants of the Marshall Islands. These natives were exposed to nuclear radiation fallout from The Castle Bravo nuclear test at Bikini atoll. This nuclear test had an unexpectedly large yield. Instead of warning the residents of the radiation, the US government decided to stay quiet and to observe the effects of radiation for research purposes.