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Top 5 Most DISTURBING EXPERIMENTS Ever Conducted

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🗓️ 19 August 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Please support Scary Mysteries! Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/scarymysteries... - There's a lot of cool access, giveaways and even a custom episode!Buy awesome original shirts made by Scary Mysteries https://newdawnfilm.com/scary-mysteri...Subscribe for Weekly Videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiE8..._________________________________________________________Top 5 Most Disturbing Experiments Ever ConductedHumans, at their best, are capable of achieving great things and doing great acts of kindness. But at their worst, they can be the bearer of doom, violence and death. The cases on this list pits humans against one another all in the name of sciene and cruelty. These are the Top 5 Most Disturbing Experiments Ever Conducted. 5. Artificial Blood Transfusions Artificial blood, at first glance seems like a good idea. For One, it has no expiration date and can be kept for a long time without spoiling unlike human blood. Second, artificial blood also doesn’t require any sterilization since it already undergoes that process during the manufacturing. Third, it can be used by any person of any blood type, 4. Milgram Experiment3. Dr. Lauretta BenderIt’s already shocking to hear of inhumane experiments conducted on adults but when they’re done on children, they take on another form of sinister. But that’s exactly what Dr. Lauretta Bender, a once respected child neuropsychiatrist, from Bellevue Hospital did between 1940 and1953.2. Holmesburg Prison Skin ExperimentsWhen dermatologist, Dr. Albert Kligman, first entered Holmesburg Prison in Pennsylvania, he famously remarked that “all he saw before him were acres of skin.” The hundreds of possible test subjects – all potentials for experimental research. The testing in Holmesburg first came to light in an expose published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on January 11, 1981, decades after the experiments were conducted. This report detailed Dioxin Testing done on several sets of prisoners. 1. Unit 731World War II was a brutal time. It revealed how far mankind would stoop to crush down their viewed enemies. One of the major players in the war, and among the most brutal, was the Imperial Japanese Army.Support the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Top 5 most disturbing experiments ever conducted.

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Humans at their best are capable of achieving great things and doing great acts of kindness,

0:17.0

but at their worst they can be the bearer of doom, violence, and death.

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The cases on this list pits humans against one another, all

0:26.2

in the name of science and cruelty. These are the top five most disturbing experiments ever

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conducted.

0:33.0

Number five, artificial blood transfusions.

0:40.0

Artificial blood at first glance seems like a good idea.

0:44.0

For one, it has no expiration date and can be kept for a long time without spoiling unlike human blood.

0:50.0

Second, artificial blood also doesn't require any sterilization since it already undergoes that process during the manufacturing.

0:58.0

Third, it can be used by any person of any blood type, an important distinction if it's a medical emergency or

1:04.9

urgent situation. Finally, those with religious restrictions about blood

1:09.9

transfusion can technically use it since it's not taken from another human being.

1:16.0

But despite all the seemingly good things about it, there's a huge controversy surrounding

1:20.6

the use of artificial blood. Not only for the blood's effectiveness and safety,

1:26.0

but also with the ways it was tested among the general public.

1:30.2

From 2004 to 2016, a hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier called Polyhem, created by Northfield Laboratories,

1:38.5

was administered to trauma patients. This took place in over 20 hospitals all around the United States.

1:46.0

The artificial product was first developed during the Vietnam War and extracted from hemoglobin.

1:52.2

Basically, patients were given the fake blood substitute for

1:55.2

testing purposes and they didn't have to agree to receive it at all. The

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experiment caused controversy and a lot of questions but nevertheless pushed through.

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