The Pros And Cons Of The Tuskegee Experiment

Research is essentially our strive for knowledge, a concept not difficult to grasp. However, when the research is being performed on other living human beings, it becomes a bit more complicated. It is a fine line between freedom and anarchy, as well as regulations and gridlock. The positive aspects, as well as the frustrations, with both is clear. However, regulations do not appear without causation. For every regulation put into place there has been some individual, or some group of people, who have been abused for our natural hunger of knowledge.
I have no doubt in my mind that the vast majority of anthropologist who are going out into the fields are not those with only their self in mind, but are those who are there to do good for the societies they are researching. But, a sad truth of our world, is that there are always a handful of people who ruin it for the good ones, whether because they are pushed by their own motives, such as in the Tuskegee Experiment, or because of their own ignorance, as in the Yanomami. Although it may not occur often, do we want to undertake those risks by easing up on regulations? It may initially be a difficult question to answer from the perspective of the researcher, but it’s a simple decision from a different view: If you were in the shoes of the research subjects, what would …show more content…
Although, again, most researchers regard their research subjects with their best intentions, they may inadvertently begin to push on the human rights of those subjects. It is then that regulations and guidelines should set in. That’s the entire reason they are created and should be enforced. So if the researcher is following the guidelines, they essentially have all the freedom they could imagine, as long as it is not adversely affecting anyone