The Pros And Cons Of Medical Experimentation

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What person could be so inhumane to be doing test on people, and treat people like laboratory animals? Why were medical experimentations done on humans in the first place? Strep throat and the flu are bad, but the man behind it all did so much worse, inflicting pain on people and getting a kick out of it, how messed up does a person have to be to do such a thing? Medical experimentations done on prisoners, a series of inhumane tests, to increase the German population, and Josef Mengele the man behind it all.

Medical experimentations done on humans; doctors were using prisoners as laboratory animals. If a person is born different, and has an unique body form. That includes identical twins, having dwarfism, or having any physical abnormalities. With a flip of a switch, people were automatically got chosen to be tested on. The scientific reason was given behind it. The “Mother Country” (Germany) should last and be the utmost powerful. The Nazi’s wanted to find out why a person could be so rare. Also, according to the Nazi’s, why did this lower race have differences and could be special. That also is under people having Heterochromia iridium, which means a single individual identifies as having two different eye colors at b
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One of their experiments was to increase fertility. Also, another was to cure frostbite. This was done in so many different brutal ways. For example, injecting viruses and chemicals into someone, and have the chance of death or organ failure. Another example is, freezing a person till frostbite occured just to find a cure for the German soldiers that were living and camping out in the wilderness. Amputations, beatings, and shooting also occurred in the labs just to go along with cold-blooded

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