In the past, some psychological experiments were run in frightening and unethical ways. From using children to experimenting on unknowing subjects, these five experiments left people affected for the ...

It’s pretty important to have strong ethics even when pursuing scientific knowledge. We, in what I think most would agree is a positive move, have drawn a line at which information comes at too high a ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

WARNING: This post discusses the disturbing treatment of adults, children, babies, and animals. 1.In 1931, psychologist Winthrop Kellogg and his wife Luella tried to answer a bold question: Is it ...

From Ardor Scribendi, publisher of mainly medical books on dermatology but also on matters that transcend it, comes this massive and thorough review of a horrible subject: the systematic use and abuse ...

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