Lafleur, Bohme, and Shimazono (2007) discuss a study that is one purpose behind the unit, “This facility was doing research on human beings as part of a feasibility study,” (p.73). The purpose behind the study is to find out if a constant supply of test subjects, human beings, is possible and if continuous experimentation is feasible, also the purpose is intended to see if Ishii’s project could be successful (p.74). Unit 731 serves as a field lab and test site as well. According to Nie, Guo, Selden, and Kleinman (2010), the unit is used for creating biological weapons and testing these weapons on Chinese cities. The production and testing of these weapons goes against the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which made the use of biological and chemical weapons in a war illegal (p.23).…
The physicians only thought of them as the enemy and treated them as if they were inanimate objects rather than actual human beings. The brutalities that occurred at Unit 731 was one of the worst cases of unethical human experimentation in history. Unethical experimentations are at least once done everywhere and the United states in not an exception. The United States is often viewed as a country that preaches freedom, equality, and the preservation of rights to its citizens and yet between 1953 to 1964, none of the views above were exhibited. In amidst the Cold War Era, the Central Intelligence Agency was performing gruesome experiments to American citizen.…
The Iraqi prison twenty miles away from Baghdad Abu Ghraib is now infamous for maltreatment. It is unknown how many people the prison held. The vast majority of prisoners were civilians picked up by the military at traffic stops. They were undocumented in the prison or placed under an ambiguous category of "common criminals" or those suspected of "crimes against the coalition". Most were not meant to be in Abu Ghraib, but since many prisoners were undocumented, this went overlooked as did the abuse against them.…
Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn't kill them, since it was toxic in high concentrations. This was before closed circuit cameras so they had only microphones and five inch thick glass porthole sized windows into the chamber to monitor them. The chamber was stocked with books, cots to sleep on but no bedding, running water and toilet, and enough dried food to last all five for over a month.…
Some of the psychological principles Cialdini introduces were apparent in the planning and execution of Operation Mincemeat. There are three that come to mind right off the back, such as commitment and consistency, liking, and authority. Other weapons of influence might have leverage, but those three stand out the most. According to Cialdini, commitment and consistency is when others make a small request that pave the way to compliance with larger subsequent requests. On the other hand, liking is engaging in a dialogue or transaction with those that we like or resemble what we like or carry likable qualities.…
“What are we? Humans? Animals? Or savages?” Lord of the Flies by William Golding, is truly a phenomenon.…
Experiments involving high air pressure, freezing temperatures and extreme heat were done on This was done to see if their own soldiers can survive the conditions and if they had the ability to save a man through the medical experiments they…
MK ULTRA,was the CIA’s questionable project that took place in the 1950’s that involved dosing unknowing citizens with large amounts of LSD, mind control, and a murder possibly covered up by our government. There is much speculation as to what the real motives behind these experiments were, one side argues that our government was using MK ULTRA for the mind control of American citizens and that the project still exists under a different name. The other side argues that MK ULTRA was only being used as a way to find a truth serum for the benefit of the country. The argument of this research paper is that MK ULTRA was in fact created for the mind control of American citizens. “Mind sciences, or the study of human behavior in relation to the mind is the newest of all the arts, it is less than 100 years old and it is by far the most cloaked by secrecy”…
The experiment was called the Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in the Negro male. The experiment was funded with tax payer’s dollars. People seemed paranoid of the disease and felt that it was more prevalent than it actually was. Many had the misinformation that syphilis was different in African Americans than it was in Caucasians. Scientists started using African Americans as test subjects rather than patients.…
Strained positions for long hours, sleep deprivation and waterboarding, with the occasional punch or slap, may sound worth it in order to save thousands of innocent Americans lives from the ongoing war of terror. It is a known fact that the American government used the term “enhanced interrogation” loosely in order to cover up their questionable actions to get any little piece of information about any terrorist motives with torture. Enhanced interrogation has been described as systematic torture in order to obtain potential terrorist information. Even though the CIA get their information, the process behind on how they got it always remains confidential only for the government. Because of the confidentiality this causes a problem to the public and foreign relations.…
Prior to WWI, no African American had ever been apart of the U.S. Air Corps. They were not allowed to join because of segregation laws and also many Americans believed that blacks were inferior to most white men. During WWII, many African American pilots overcame racism at home and overseas to become the best fighter pilots in American History. In 1940 U.S. President Franklin.…
Marianne Szegedy-Maszak, author of "The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism," states that everyone is subjected to be a possible torturer (Szegedy-Maszak 76). Szegedy-Maszak asserts, the "unconscionable acts" committed by the Abu Ghraib were likely caused by "the anxiety and helplessness" of their horrific living conditions (Szegedy-Maszak 76). Philip G. Zimbardo, author of "The Stanford Prison Experiment," attempts to clarify the reasoning and motivation behind the sadistic acts in situations similar to the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal. Zimbardo conducted a study where twenty-one male college students were paid fifteen dollars a day to participate in a, "mock prison," to study the psychological behavior projected from a simulated prison…
As Marianne Szegedy-Maszak states in “The Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal: Sources of Sadism,” everyone has the potential to be a torturer (Szegedy-Maszak 76). According to Szegedy-Maszak, the “unconscionable acts” committed at Abu Ghraib were likely caused by “the anxiety and helplessness” of their living conditions in Iraq (76). In attempt to investigate the motives behind sadistic acts in situations similar to the Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal, Philip G. Zimbardo, author of “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” held a study in which twenty-one “normal-average” male college students were brought to a “mock prison” to observe the influences of imprisonment on psychological behavior (Zimbardo 107-108). The analysis was originally designed to last for two…
The U.S. national government has a long history of employing questionable tactics in order to increase their budget and give the American population some peace of mind. The FBI’s use of entrapment strategies targeting mentally ill members of the Muslim community in order to justify counterterrorism spending is an egregious violation of human rights. The blatant disregard for the human life is obvious in their use of human beings as tools to get more funding. Entrapment is a legal term that not too many people are familiar with, it is the illegal act of luring an individual into committing a crime that they would not have committed otherwise and then prosecuting them for it.…
Deception plays a key and controversial role in the ethics of psychological research. In psychology, deception occurs either when information is withheld from participants (omission) or when participants are intentionally misinformed about an aspect of the research (commission). This essay will explore whether participants in psychological experiments should ever be deceived regarding the true nature of the experiment. This will be analysed by discussing the arguments for and against deception using some controversial case studies in research. Non deceptive methods of research do not always allow researchers to explore true findings.…