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Throughout history, science has saved countless lives — from vaccines and antibiotics to modern surgeries and mental health treatments. But before today’s strict ethical standards is a darker past of unethical human experiments carried out in the name of scientific progress.
In this episode, we dive deep into some of the most disturbing and shocking experiments ever conducted and explore how they ultimately reshaped the rules of modern research.
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - The 1918 influenza prison study
02:36 - The little Albert experiment
04:14 - The Tuskegee syphilis study
06:28 - The Stanford prison experiment
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Hosted by Eleanor Higgs
Produced and edited by Dominic Grose
Written by James Felton, Anthony Wrigley and Dominic Grose
Opening Title Sequence by Philip K Brayne & James Rodrigues
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Throughout history, science has saved countless lives — from vaccines and antibiotics to modern surgeries and mental health treatments. But before today’s strict ethical standards is a darker past of unethical human experiments carried out in the name of scientific progress.
In this episode, we dive deep into some of the most disturbing and shocking experiments ever conducted and explore how they ultimately reshaped the rules of modern research.
00:00 - Intro
00:48 - The 1918 influenza prison study
02:36 - The little Albert experiment
04:14 - The Tuskegee syphilis study
06:28 - The Stanford prison experiment
#experiment #stanfordprisonexperiment #science #scientificexperiments #darkscience
Other Videos:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfac07dXQhkxBGekNRnpcrT_-KnLyGafy
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfac07dXQhkzgpRY9y3WA_eGu_fLAGngZ
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfac07dXQhkyJCHBX-sdmNz8yL-tikEzz
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfac07dXQhkxeF7u7KplAVIQbTKE3RIhX
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfac07dXQhkyjnTnLO0UhyGUi0EX5TOnh
Social Media:
► Website: iflscience.com
► Facebook: facebook.com/iflscience
► Instagram: instagram.com/iflscience
► Threads: threads.net/@iflscience
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Read more:
iflscience.com/grim-experiments-on-prisoners-during-the-spanish-flu-pandemic-did-not-go-to-plan-59242
iflscience.com/unethical-experiments-when-scientists-really-should-have-stopped-what-they-were-doing-immediately-80717
iflscience.com/human-experiments-good-bad-and-ugly-28683
iflscience.com/being-sane-in-insane-places-the-rosenhan-experiment-changed-psychiatry-but-was-it-all-it-seemed-79115
Credits:
Hosted by Eleanor Higgs
Produced and edited by Dominic Grose
Written by James Felton, Anthony Wrigley and Dominic Grose
Opening Title Sequence by Philip K Brayne & James Rodrigues
Additional media from Storyblocks, Shutterstock, Wikimedia Commons, Philip Zimbardo
Licences:
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
