The ethnic barriers in the world of science have always been blurry and hard to determine. Depending on the time, and the popular social ideologies of that time, scientific practices may switch to and fro on the scales of ethicality. Because of these obscure complications, scientists often have a hard time picking their sides on the age-long debate between practically and morality. Some experimental procedures may have deemed acceptable in the past, but are now frowned upon. Although amazing scientific breakthroughs have resulted from some questionable experiments, it is hard to believe that these scientists had the audacity and the nerve to perform these practices and remained morally unscathed. A practice such as human experimentation, explicitly,
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They conducted a study on 408 test subjects without their informed consent. They were told that they were receiving medical treatment for “bad blood”, but in truth, they never even received penicillin, which was the most effective treatment for syphilis. Doctors used the incentive of free medical exams, meals, and burial insurance in exchange for taking part of the study. This 40 year long study ended in the many deaths of African-American test subjects and is considered as one of the most unethical scientific researches in US history. President Bill Clinton even formally apologized to the study’s victims on behalf of the United States albeit only 7 of these men lived to witness it (The Tuskegee Syphilis …show more content…
One such technology was the HeLa cell line, which was clearly emphasized in Skloot’s book as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Many doctors at the time often took advantage of their ill patients, often taking cells from their tumors, cervixes, embryos, and other parts of the human body for their research. Since the development of the HeLa cell line, HeLa cells became the go-to cell culture used in scientific inquiry, thus eliminating the effort of taking cells from misinformed
They conducted a study on 408 test subjects without their informed consent. They were told that they were receiving medical treatment for “bad blood”, but in truth, they never even received penicillin, which was the most effective treatment for syphilis. Doctors used the incentive of free medical exams, meals, and burial insurance in exchange for taking part of the study. This 40 year long study ended in the many deaths of African-American test subjects and is considered as one of the most unethical scientific researches in US history. President Bill Clinton even formally apologized to the study’s victims on behalf of the United States albeit only 7 of these men lived to witness it (The Tuskegee Syphilis …show more content…
One such technology was the HeLa cell line, which was clearly emphasized in Skloot’s book as one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. Many doctors at the time often took advantage of their ill patients, often taking cells from their tumors, cervixes, embryos, and other parts of the human body for their research. Since the development of the HeLa cell line, HeLa cells became the go-to cell culture used in scientific inquiry, thus eliminating the effort of taking cells from misinformed