The Most Horrifying Human Experiments Of All Time | Random Thursday

This video is supported by brilliant When you were in school, did you ever do one of those things where you pricked your finger and then put a drop of blood on a slide and looked at it under a microscope? If so, then you participated in a

human

experiment to better understand our species, congratulations, you learned, it is experimented with

human

beings every day all over the world, the fact of the matter is that you have to know that there is a lot you can learn in a laboratory like now We are finally seeing the launch of the covid19 vaccine and that was only possible after testing on thousands of people, so medical

experiments

on humans are not necessary but of course they are carried out with strict protocols and strict ethical standards, this is part of the scientific process that has been perfected for centuries, but unfortunately this has not always been the case throughout history, there have been examples of horrible medical

experiments

performed on humans under the guise of war, national security or simply ethnic or racial purity, in fact it is arguable that they should even be called experiments, experiments are really just excuses for cruelty.

Now I am sure that in many of these cases the people who carried out these experiments thought they were doing the world a service by discovering knowledge that they could not obtain. otherwise, but let's find out as we take a look at some of the

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horrific human experiments of all

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? Before we begin, I must warn that what we are going to talk about in this video gets dark. Dark, honestly this might be one of the

most

disturbing things I've ever talked about on this channel and I'm the severed head guy, but this really happened and this is a good example of how far humans can go.

It's worth facing it. even if it's uncomfortable and it's going to be uncomfortable Grigore Marianovsky was a Russian biochemist who ran a laboratory specializing in poison research and by that I mean he was finding new and innovative ways to poison people to death, the facility had several names laboratory 1 laboratory 12 and chimera means cell or chamber in russian and was supervised by a high ranking official named gingrich yagoda who should not be confused with grogu yoda but it was marionoski who carried out these experiments and it seems that this was actually a work in the one who was born.

I mean his PhD was actually titled Biological activity of the products of the interaction of mustard gas with human skin tissues. He chose it for his thesis, so he brought that enthusiasm for poisons to the laboratory where they carried out involuntary experiments on gulag prisoners. Including chemicals like digitoxin curare, cyanide, mustard gas and ricin, ultimately what they are looking for is a combination of odorless and tasteless things that could kill someone without being detected and basically they put the poisons and vitamins that were given to the prisoners so that the prisoners had no idea they were taking poisons, that is, until they couldn't breathe or his heart stopped beating.

It is literally impossible to know how many prisoners died as a result of this test, but due to his research, this actually led to some stops. Profile of real-world murders, including Bulgarian dissident Gregory Markov, who was famous for being murdered with a poison pellet to the leg administered with a modified umbrella. Yes, a secret agent literally just hit him in the leg with an umbrella while he was walking down the street. and he administered a small pellet of ricin. He died in hospital four days later. We still don't know the exact location of the laboratory because it was kept secret, but a KGB deserter in 1954 said it was near a police station.

In fact, in Lubyanka some people think that the lab or some version of the lab is still experimenting on people to this day, but that's the Soviet Union, they are evil, we all know the United States would never do it. Oh yes, shocking, I know, but the United States doesn't come out completely clean on this either, there are some human experiment programs going on, including the San Jose project in World War II. San José Island or San José Island is in the Gulf of Panama and in World War II, the United States. The states had a base there and at this base they carried out experiments on how mustard gas affected the human body in humans.

These particular humans were American troops who were voluntarily told to do so, which in itself isn't a big deal, I mean, the soldiers put their bodies on the line in a million different ways, sure, but they did. What makes this a little suspicious is how they chose the troops, they did it by race. African American and Puerto Rican soldiers were selected for these experiments because that is what was thought at the

time

. that their darker skin would make them more resistant to mustard gas and therefore make them more valuable on the front lines in Japan and tests were done on Japanese American soldiers to see how mustard gas would affect enemy soldiers.

About 60,000 soldiers were experimented with mustard. gas during World War II, which means we probably gassed more of our soldiers than enemy soldiers and I should point out that it wasn't just minorities that were tested on white soldiers, they were also tested on control groups and the soldiers were exposed to mustard gas in three different ways patch tests applying liquid mustard gas directly to a subject's skin field tests that expose subjects to gas outside in simulated combat scenarios and chamber tests that literally place soldiers in a chamber and they funnel mustard gas into her, which sounds horrible on a Quick note: this friend of mine was in the military and he told me all about basic training and how they put them in the tear gas chamber to expose them, you know, to the gas tear gas, so that they would understand what it feels like in combat situations. and when he was talking about how it was horrible and it stung your eyes and you were just throwing up and snot was flying out of your face and it was the worst experience of his entire life, but then he said, "I've never breathed." Freer in my life like all the mucus comes out of me and now every time I get sick and I'm lying down and I can't breathe and I'm all clogged up and all I think about is God just put me there. the gas chamber and be done with it, you know, yeah, mustard gas is a lot worse than that.

Mustard gas causes blisters to form immediately when it touches the skin or the inside of the lungs. This isn't something you just cough up and then you're done. Done with this, this damages things permanently. People who are exposed to mustard gas often get things like asthma and emphysema later due to damage to the lungs, but even worse than that, it also damages DNA, leading to leukemia and skin cancer. It was first used extensively by the Germans in World War I. The gas has a yellowish-brown appearance and may smell like garlic, horseradish, or mustard. It was after the Germans used mustard gas on Polish citizens in 1939 that the United States decided we needed our own stockpile.

By the end of the war we had produced more than one hundred thousand tons of various types of mustard gas, including 20,000 tons of leucite, 100 tons of nitrogen mustard, and 87,000 tons of sulfur mustard. The mustard gas experiments were shocking, but what could be even more shocking. This is how these soldiers were treated afterwards, even though they were told they would be treated afterward and despite the permanent injuries they suffered, they still couldn't get any type of disability compensation from the Veterans Administration because the tests were carried out. in secret. It wasn't until npr reported on this in 2015 that survivors finally told their stories and the department of veterans affairs finally stepped in and decided to do something about it.

That story won an award by the way, of course it did. Not only the Americans did this, the British also did something to the Indian soldiers around that same time and also for the same reasons they thought darker skin would make them more resistant to mustard gas. It wasn't like that and thousands of Indian soldiers were permanently scarred for life for god's sake melanin doesn't make you a glutton in 1932, the US public health service began recruiting black men between the ages of 25 and 60. to participate in the study. This study was done in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute and most of the participants were collected in the surrounding areas of Macon County, mostly poor and illiterate sharecroppers, its purpose was to study the natural history of syphilis, how it affected a person over time and how it spread through communities and the name of this study was the tuskegee study of untreated syphilis and black men usually just call it the tuskegee syphilis experiment, now there are fewer syllables, basically they only picked 600 people, 399 of them had syphilis and 201 didn't, so they were in the control group and the idea was that they were just going to look. them over a long period of time and see how the disease progressed now, there's nothing really sketchy about that, it's not like they gave people syphilis or anything, they already had it and just for context, syphilis is a bacterial infection and this was before antibiotics. so it was untreatable at the time, it is a sexually transmitted disease so it is usually transmitted through sexual contact and can lie dormant in the body for years before it finally starts to take over, but once it does, if not It's about, it's a horror show.

People with secondary syphilis develop rashes and wart-like lesions all over the body, and in tertiary syphilis, inflammatory balls called gummas grow under the skin on bones and in organs, causing damage to the heart, liver, and brain, causing damage to the heart, liver, and brain. which leads to psychosis dementia and seizures and eventually death, so yes, syphilis was a scourge back then and really had been throughout all of human history, especially in the military, it would just decimate the ranks and officials were obsessed with controlling the spread of syphilis. In fact, spoiler alert, this is not the last time.

They're going to hear about the altruism video, so for the kids in this study they know that the dye had been poured, there wasn't really any way to deal with it, there was nothing to do about it, so for them this was just a way of It contributed to the scientific understanding of the problem and they also got free meals and basic medical care and that all seems fine. I guess the problem is that in 1947 they discovered that syphilis can be treated with penicillin and they never told you. People in the studio, yeah, you know that thing you have that will warp your body and drive you crazy, well there's a way to fix it, but I think we'd rather see what happens, hey, yeah, the faulty thinking that led to that decision is owes to the same erroneous thinking that led to this whole study: first of all, they thought that the black community was more prone to syphilis infections than other people, yes, that's how the researchers justified the project, they called it a study in the nature and They also argued that they did not believe that they would be able to convince people in the black community to take the treatments for syphilis, but they also went much further, as if they really did everything they could to make sure that these people could not possibly They didn't receive any kind of treatment for their syphilis, they even went so far as to give them fake medications that didn't really do anything, so the people in the study thought they were being treated and cared for and they weren't, but on top of that, They gave lists of the people in the study to all doctors in Macon County and also appealed to the Alabama Department of Health to prevent them from receiving treatment.

They were told not to treat these people for Syphilis if they came in and in fact when some of these men were drafted into World War II and the military tested them and found they had syphilis instead of just treating them as they would any another recruit, investigators got the military to send them back home. so that they would not be treated, thus denying them the opportunity to be tested with mustard gas, these men were allowed to deteriorate unnecessarily for 40 years until 1972, when the New York Times published an article about it, at which time only 74 of the The original 600 were still alive and also at that time 40 of their wives had been infected and 19 of their children were born with congenital syphilis, sparking public outrage in a NAACP lawsuit and in 1974 Congress passed the research act. national and formed the human research protection office to prevent this from happening again remember earlier when I said the uk tested mustard gas on their own troops, they will tie themselves to the brits becauseThey also tested it on the general public, the Guardian reporting in 2002 that the UK's Ministry of Research and Defense turned much of the country into a giant laboratory to carry out a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.

These tests were carried out between 1940 and 1979 and involved deadly chemical microorganisms and an unsuspecting public was told that the tests were to detect air pollution and meteorological research projects the tests were carried out in the port and below, which is its bioweapons laboratory and in fact the oldest bioweapons laboratory in the world, but the aim was to measure the UK's vulnerability should the Soviets attack with the biological warfare agent when the story broke The Ministry of Defense claimed that what they were actually using were alternatives to biological agents that were harmless, but many families who had children born with birth defects disagreed. a test that took place between 1955 and 1963 involved dumping large amounts of zinc and cadmium sulfide.

For the general public, zinc cadmium sulfide is a fluorescent powder that makes it easy to track under ultraviolet light and they use it to track how biological agents might move through the public if dropped on people, the problem with That's because cadmium is known to be carcinogenic, it was also the story of a military ship called the Ice Whale that sprayed E coli bacteria in a five to ten mile radius around the south coast of England during the 1960s. Other experiments described in the report include the bacteria sriracha maresense with an anthrax simulant and phenol sprayed into the air in large quantities, bacteria released at lunchtime on the London Underground. and germs attached to spider webs in various places in the country, including London's West End, it is now admitted that some data may have been collected that would have been useful in the event of an attack by the Soviet Union, but that attack never happened, so the only country who actually sprayed biological poisons on the people of the UK was the UK government itself, yeah it's all fun and games until the Nazis show up.

The Nazis with all their death camps had an ample supply of experimental subjects to test on which they managed over the years. completely dehumanizing, basically treating human beings as nothing more than lab rats that millions suffered under the Nazi regime, but perhaps none more than twins because they were obsessed with racial purity, which led to some twisted and perverted ideas about the genetics and thought of one particular Nazi doctor. who could find all the answers he needed about genetics by experimenting with twins. His name is Joseph Mengele and he has become one of the biggest monsters in history.

When he arrived at Auschwitz in 1943, he was considered one of the best doctors in the country, but soon He earned a new nickname, the angel of death, he searched the prisoners who arrived at Auschwitz in search of twins and finally found 3,000 of them to do experiments with which only 200 survived, the life of the twins in the camp was in better reality. that other people at first didn't have to do any hard work, they went to classes and even played soccer from time to time, but then the trucks would come to take them away from Angela's experiments, they would begin measuring tests in which each part of the twins' bodies They were measured in great detail, this would take hours, and then they would be subjected to basically whatever crazy idea Mengele had, including transferring blood from one twin to the other, injecting chemicals into the eyes to try. to turn them blue, this would normally only cause infections or blindness, injecting diseases such as typhus and tuberculosis into one twin and not the other to see what would happen and if one twin died during this experiment, the other was killed for comparison and to examine the disease.

Effects also perform surgeries such as amputations, castration, and organ removal without anesthesia. The twin experiments were sadly just the beginning, for example at the Dachau camp they did high altitude tests to try to determine exactly at what altitude, say, a German pilot could exit a damaged plane. plane so yeah they just put the prisoners in a low pressure chamber and then they just reduced the air pressure until they died because science also did hypothermia testing they basically put the prisoners in cold water and did it every time colder until they died and also made seawater. tests making them drink seawater until they died in other camps infected prisoners with diseases such as malaria, typhoid and hepatitis to test treatments at ravensburg camp doctors carried out bone grafting experiments and sterilization trials that included everything, from x-rays to surgeries and medications.

Of them causing psychological and physical harm, human experiments were just part of the Nazi atrocities that took place during World War II, leading to the Nuremberg Code, which now functions as a sort of basis for ethical human experimentation since It's really hard to imagine a system more cruel and inhumane than the Nazi death camps, but believe it or not, there was one and it took place at around the same time on the other side of the world Unit 731 was a Japanese biological weapons testing laboratory in Japanese occupied China which opened in 1938, although the Japanese government did not recognize the atrocities that took place there until 1984.

Lieutenant Shiro Ishii led the operation which used prisoners of war and local villagers as human guinea pigs or as the researchers in the records. These flesh and blood human beings were nothing more than entries in a record book to them, so what kind of experiments were done there? Let's start with the freezing tests. The prisoners simply had their limbs put on ice until they froze and the doctors would then try. different ways of rewarming the limbs, sometimes putting them in warm water, sometimes simply putting them over an open flame and there are times when prisoners were simply left untreated overnight to see if the blood would eventually warm the limbs or just the left. outside in the winter until their limbs fell off, that's not cruel enough for you, they also perform vivisections now, if you don't know what a vivisection is, it's basically an autopsy of a living person, their reasoning was that they wanted to see how diseases such as cholera behave. and typhus affected living tissue before it started to decompose, so yes, they tied prisoners to a table and removed their organs to examine them while they were still alive without anesthesia of course, and did crazy things like crushing limbs to see how long it lasted. take for gangrene to install or amputate a limb and attach it to the other side of the body, real human centipede type stuff, sometimes they would just tie a prisoner to a post and give him weapons tests with guns, machine guns, grenades and flamethrowers and prisoners were placed in gas chambers to be tested with nerve agents or prisoners were simply locked in rooms without food or water just to see how long they could survive without food or water.

Some other experiments included forcing prisoners to drink only sea water, giving prisoners mixed injections of human or animal blood to study clotting and transfusions, exposing human subjects to prolonged X-rays resulting in sterilization and death, and placing humans in centrifuges and spun at ultra-high speeds until they lost consciousness or died, and then there were the syphilis experiments they told you it was going to come back and, like syphilis, it's coming back worse, much worse because in This case they actually infected the prisoners and then without treatment to see how the disease progressed, but they also wanted to study the transmission of the disease, which means that They, um, I have to say this line, forced male prisoners with syphilis to rape prisoners until they contracted syphilis.

On a similar note, guards often raped female prisoners to get them pregnant and then tested them for weapons. they knew how to see how differently a pregnant woman responds to being shot or they would give the pregnant woman various diseases and then cut up the fetus to see how it affected her and last but not least unit 731 developed plague bombs by packing fleas infested with plague. In clay casings, Japanese bombers deployed the bombs over a Chinese village called Kuzao in 1940. More than 2,000 people died there from the plague and another thousand died in a nearby town after the plague was spread there by railway workers. sick.

Unit 731 was disbanded. In 1945, after Japan surrendered and the site was destroyed so that no evidence was available, the remaining 400 prisoners were shot, but plague-infested rats were released and ended up killing an estimated 30,000 people across rural China. The prisoners were shot to prevent the truth. of what happened there since they left and the employees of unit 731 had to take oaths of secrecy and unfortunately that seems to have worked many of the investigators of unit 731 simply returned to civilian life without consequences of any kind, in fact, Some of them became prominent members of the universities, so this is something unforgivable, but the people who carried out these experiments had an excuse: they believed or claimed to believe anyway that they were acquiring knowledge that could not be obtained in any other way, but it's true?

Actually good things come out of all these human experiments, not really in the case of the Nazi experiments, the test subjects were not ideal, they were malnourished, overworked, stressed and generally in poor health, In addition, the experiments were carried out

random

ly and many notes were found and left behind. It was all just gibberish and also a big part of the scientific process is being able to recreate tests and get the same results and those tests that they did in the Nazi death camps cannot be ethically recreated again, which makes them somewhat useless, but there is something we can learn about the researchers and the psychological mechanisms that make it possible for people to perform such horrible acts.

There is a famous psychology study called the Stanford Prison Experiment. I think I've covered it here before, but generally what they were trying to do. What had to be found out was whether the brutality among American prison guards was due to the personalities they brought in or the prison environment itself. The student volunteers were

random

ly divided between prisoners and guards and then put in a prison situation and left without any supervision. to see what would happen, the experiment was supposed to last two weeks, it was shut down after six days, the prisoners were having emotional breakdowns and the guards were becoming extremely aggressive and violent even though none of them had those kinds of tendencies before. before the experiment began.

A term called deindividuation is when a person becomes so absorbed in the norms of a group that they lose all personal sense of self and responsibility, and when this happens, activities that are cruel and unusual to people outside the group lose all meaning to them. the people who are within the group because that is the norm, it is almost as if the group is brainwashing itself from the inside out and determining what is right and what is wrong as a collective and when this group sees itself as apart from others, then they tend to dehumanize the other people they start out with by not seeing them as human at all and then treating them accordingly.

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