When Science Crossed the Line
Experiments that went too far, and the scandals that gave us the ethics rules science follows today.
- ethics
- experiments
- science
Some of the stories included
Frances Kelsey & ThalidomideFDA reviewer Frances Kelsey held off approval 14 months, sparing the US the worst of thalidomide.
The Stanford Prison ExperimentHow a fake prison at Stanford revealed the unsettling power of roles.- The Little Albert ExperimentHow a controversial experiment changed psychology and ethics forever.
The Tuskegee Syphilis StudyUS Public Health Service withheld syphilis treatment from 399 Black men in Alabama for 40 years.
MKUltra — The CIA’s Secret Mind Control ProgramThe shadowy history of MKUltra: the CIA's top-secret mind control experiments.
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