There are so many, but one of the biggest is Project MK Ultra. They literally dosed people with LSD (unknowingly to the patient) and various other terrifying methods to try to figure out different ways of interrogation through human experimentation.
Project MKUltra began in 1953 and was halted in 1972.[3][4] MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects’ mental states and brain functions, such as the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals without the subjects’ consent. Additionally, other methods beyond chemical compounds were used, including electroshocks,[5] hypnosis,[6][7] sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture.[8][9]
And as best I understand it, didn’t even use proper scientific method to even make their study replicate to prove what they were doing worked to any extent.
Which isn’t the worst part at all, but just shoves it waaaaaaaay further down the torture side and removes any scientific use at all.
Yep! Though Project MK Ultra was founded on Nazi experiments specifically:
During the early 1940s, Nazi scientists working in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau during World War II conducted interrogation experiments on human subjects. Substances such as barbiturates, morphine derivatives, and hallucinogens such as mescaline were employed in experiments conducted on Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, and other prisoners of war.[22] These experiments aimed to develop a truth serum which would, in the words of one laboratory assistant to Dachau scientist Kurt Plötner, “eliminate the will of the person examined.”[22] American historian Stephen Kinzer said that the CIA project was a continuation of these earlier Nazi experiments, as evidenced by MKUltra’s use of mescaline on unwitting subjects, replicating previous Nazi experiments conducted at Dachau.[23] Numerous Nazi scientists would be employed by the United States government after the war as part of Operation Paperclip, with some figures such as Kurt Blome becoming involved in MKUltra.[24]
I am. Neither the CIA nor the Nazis followed the basic scientific method and the results are not reproducible. They were really just torturing people and using their goal of developing a “truth serum” as justification.
Japan had a similar unit that was torturing people under “scientific advancement”.
Can you give examples of such cases? Really important once?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d’%C3%A9tat
Kind of the reason Iran is so terrible now
(And tons of other countries have similar stories)
They killed MLK Jr. Not sure if they’ve fully admitted it yet.
I think I would’ve heard about that lol
Who is “they”?
J Edgar Hoover’s FBI afair
The government brought crack into the inner cities to disrupt black neighborhoods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
A study on black men with syphilis, while hiding that fact and leaving them untreated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
Fun fact: MKUltra produced the Unabomber
vaguely waves around pointing at everything.
There are so many, but one of the biggest is Project MK Ultra. They literally dosed people with LSD (unknowingly to the patient) and various other terrifying methods to try to figure out different ways of interrogation through human experimentation.
Source
And as best I understand it, didn’t even use proper scientific method to even make their study replicate to prove what they were doing worked to any extent.
Which isn’t the worst part at all, but just shoves it waaaaaaaay further down the torture side and removes any scientific use at all.
They learned from the Nazis that way.
I think about the guy who killed himself after the CIA, his employer, dosed him with LSD without him knowing pretty often.
And the Japanese
Yep! Though Project MK Ultra was founded on Nazi experiments specifically:
Oh I thought you were referring to the whole “not reproducible and not following basic scientific method” part
I am. Neither the CIA nor the Nazis followed the basic scientific method and the results are not reproducible. They were really just torturing people and using their goal of developing a “truth serum” as justification.
Japan had a similar unit that was torturing people under “scientific advancement”.