Comments on: The Most Unethical Experiments

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:27:00 +0000

Tom T. and Anonymous are wrong. The Human subjects ethics rules were actually introduced in response to the experiments that Milgram was doing. You can watch videos of the test subjects if you want to understand the psychological stress that subjects were under.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:03:00 +0000

Did you really just copy this whole list, including images, from another site!?!? Unreal. This is the last time I’ll ever visit So Weirdo.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:22:00 +0000

Quote:”tom t. said…gram’s experiment was the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of unethical. The point of the experiment was that people follow UNETHICAL orders… nobody was hurt or coerced in any way.”

Nobody was hurt or coerced? The point was to coerce people as an authority figure to wrestle with their own conscience causing them a great deal of emotional distress and possible permanent damage. Unethical? Of course…. Also, as far as humans being the only evil animals, its probably more correct to say that we are probably the only animals that consider such concepts… Killer whales use seals as frisbees for entertainment. What side of the lien would you put that on, for example?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 13:01:00 +0000

SERIOUSLY!

THIS IS BLATANT PLAGIARISM.

PLEASE CITE!

BETTER YET, DON'T PLAGIARIZE!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:08:00 +0000

You should really NOT plagiarize other sites for your content.

http://listverse.com/science/top-10-unethical-psychological-experiments/

At least use different images, you know?

Plagiarism Bad.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:07:00 +0000

You really left a great deal out about what the Harlow studies were actually about. HIs most famous experiment was presenting a baby rhesus monkey with two surrogate mothers, one made of cloth and one made of wire. Harlow outfitted one of the surrogates with a nipple, a feeding apparatus, that the money could nurse from. Even when the monkey received it’s feeding from the wire mother, they would choose to cling to the cloth mother. Even when separated from the cloth mother it would immediately return to it. The idea here was that the bonding does not necessarily come from the feeding an infant gets.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:31:00 +0000

Yuck, so now do we know that people are capable of causing pain, alienation and dispair? By the way, the Landis’ Facial Expressions Experiment predated the tuskegee experiment by 10 years, plenty of time to refine technique. think what we could do now. lets celebrate hell & hand out degrees.

By: JG Hitzert

JG Hitzert — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:03:00 +0000

You couldn’t get past IRB review with the Milgram or any of the other experiments. Their are strict rules over potential harm that can be done by any social science experiment these days.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:24:00 +0000

The Tuskegee experiment wasn’t a psychological one, though, and therefore doesn’t belong on this list.

By: TinaBeth

TinaBeth — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:03:00 +0000

This list is missing the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. Between 1932 and 1972, almost 400 black men from a poor part of Alabama tested positive for syphilis and the federal health department never told them. The health department lied to the men about why they were being given free medical care, and purposefully withheld treatment in order to autopsy the men’s bodies after they died. Syphilis is completely treatable when caught in the primary stage, but once it reaches the tertiary stage, its a horrendous death. Surely this experiment qualifies as one of the most unethical, especially considering it was carried out by the government.