The Pros And Cons Of Human Experimentation

Human Experimentation has existed for a millennia. Typically the poor were subject to experimentation by the ruling class. As far as we know it’s not prevalent now, as it was just 60 years ago. Poor African-Americans were discriminated against and experimented purely based off race by the white ruling class of the 1950’s-1970. Africans-Americans were seen as unintelligent beings that lacked human properties such as being able to feel pain. “Poor and uneducated, the men gladly accepted, unaware they were guinea pigs…” from Medical Apartheid. Moreover, these dehumanization tactics made it easier for white men to take advantage of African-American men, women, and children. Though African-Americans were indeed uneducated and highly illiterate, unknowingly, they fell into the hands of wicked and immoral doctors. These doctors infected poor African-Americans in Tuskegee, Alabama with syphilis to study its effects while withholding the cure. In another instance of cruel experimentation on African-Americans were to test the effects of tremendously high radiation. “…exposing them to intense doses of radiation and recording their physical and mental response…” This was warranted by scientists in the height of the Cold War. Nevertheless at the cost of African-American lives by Cancer, due to them still being viewed as expendable
“Several black physicians aided white researchers in their syphilis research” other Blacks may have facilitated in the experimentation on their sisters and brothers, but they were in the severe minority compared to the sheer amount of blacks that were experimented on. In the Cold War radiation experiments, “most were poor, 60% were black…” Over half the participants were black leaving 40% to be either poor whites or other races. Blacks in the radiation experiment were still the majority of