I am your host Ketown and you're listening to seven disturbing chronicle stories of scary paranormal and horror tales. Beginning in 1947, the US government.

Beginning in 1947, the US government immorally and unethically and arguably,

illegally engaged in research experiments on the population.

One such experiment was performed on 5,000 uninformed and unconsenting guanumalan people

who were intentionally infected with the bacteria that caused sexually

transmitted diseases. Many have been left untreated to this present day. The US government used Americans as unwilling

test subjects in their human experiments and got away with it. Science is very

hard and good science requires a lot of control. Medical science in

particular calls for elaborate precautions to be taken not just to ensure the accuracy of the data but to protect

the test subjects. People do have rights after all. It's highly unethical to

subject them to drug trials against their will or poison them without

their consent.

Those constraints make medical research one of the hardest fields to work in.

Since most experiments have to be done on animals,

those findings don't necessarily apply to humans.

So over the years some American medical researchers have

deliberately violated the rules to gain the inside track to scientific knowledge, usually at a horrific cost to innocent people.

Here are some of those experiments. Chemical weapons and the horrors of mustard gas.

After World War I, chemical weapons were a serious concern for the military. There was legitimate fear among British

and American leaders that Germany would turn to chemical weapons as the

tide turned. That fear was a big part of the reason why the U.S. Army saw

fit to use its own soldiers for human experiments.

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