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Historical Events · Documented historical programs
They ran medical tests on people who did not consent.
Open the caseHuman radiation experiments2
- Official · Federal agencies retained and later opened archives related to human radiation experiments for public and committee review.
- Official · The United States government sponsored human radiation experiments on people who frequently lacked full information or meaningful consent.
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments1
- Official · An Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments investigated federal human radiation research and issued public findings.
Central Intelligence Agency1
- Official · The CIA ran Project MK-Ultra, which included drug, interrogation, and behavioral experiments on human subjects.
Holmesburg Prison1
- Documented · Prisoners at Holmesburg Prison were used as subjects in medical and dermatological experiments later described as abusive and exploitative.
Other3
- Documented · Many documented unethical human experiments targeted prisoners, patients, wartime captives, and other groups with limited power to refuse.
- Documented · Popular documentaries and listicles repeatedly present historical non-consensual human experiments as among the worst scientific abuses.
- Documented · Under National Socialism, large numbers of people were subjected to unethical, coerced medical experiments and research.