Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to the CIA’s MKUltra program and the recent ...

There is a sea change in America’s framework for conducting experiments on humans. The biggest surprise is that you probably know little to nothing about it. It has to do with a provision tucked into ...

Democrats are lamenting the impending closure of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) office that once conducted experiments that exposed people to toxic pollutants. Despite Democrats’ objections, ...

Upon learning of the horrific experiments, a group to which I belonged sued the agency in federal court to stop them. The documents filed by EPA in response to our lawsuit revealed some shocking facts ...