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    medical experiments on children‚ women‚ minorities‚ homosexuals and inmates? Think again: This timeline‚ originally put together by Dani Veracity (a NaturalNews reporter)‚ has been edited and updated with recent vaccination experimentation programs in Maryland and New Jersey. Here’s what’s really happening in the United States when it comes to exploiting the public for medical experimentation: (1845 - 1849) J. Marion Sims‚ later hailed as the "father of gynecology‚" performs medical experiments on

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    Stanley Milgram was an extremely famous psychologist who was best known for his groundbreaking experiment on the subject of obedience during the 1960s. Milgram began his career as a psychologist just around the time that the horrifying truth of the concentration camps came out. The fact that almost an entire nation obeyed one man‚ who commanded them to do inhumane and grotesque acts to other human beings intrigued Stanley Milgram. He became even more interested when he began watching the trial of

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    social science “Milgram Experiments” were used to discover of the people would willingly hurt another person because someone of authority told them to do it but the participants were told that the purpose of the experiment was to study memory with punishments. Ethic and moral dilemmas appeared during the experiment that criticized the research and its methods because of its deception and stress that it puts on the volunteers. There are multiple reasons why the experiment could be used to show the

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    The experiment was somewhat successful in supporting the hypothesis. However‚ as a result of large inaccuracies and inconsistencies‚ it was difficult to make clear conclusions on the overall investigation of the experiment. The summary table portrays the errors and inaccuracies within the data. As evident in the table‚ the 10oC temperature is very accurate as the range was 0‚ resulting in an error percentage of 0%. However‚ the 35oC temperature had a no clear skew of results as indicated through

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    Throughout the years‚ many sociologists have researched the conformity within society. The two experiments that remain important and significant are the Asch Experiment and the Milgram Experiment. Both of these experiments researched the basis on why or even how conformity appears in society. The Asch Experiment was an experiment that was done by Soloman Asch in 1951 that took students from Swarthmore College to test if one participant would conform to the majority’s opinion‚ even if the answers

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    antisocial behavior. The experiment was undertaken with pastoralists from southern Namibia and the study area is divided into two parts according to the exogenous differences in biomass production (a high yield and a low yield area). In this paper‚ biomass production is taken as a proxy of resource scarcity and moved the lab to the field to observe fundamental human behaviors‚ such as risk aversion‚ time preference‚ trust‚ spite‚ and cooperation. There were two experiments‚ such as‚ a one-shot public

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    voltages. The main question of the experiment is “how long will someone continue to give shocks to another person if they are told to do so‚ even if they thought they could be seriously hurt?” (Milgram Experiment‚ 2008). Of course to conduct any experiment‚ you need participants. Stanley Milgram had forty subjects which were all males. According to Milgram they were “recruited via mail and a newspaper ad. They thought they were going to participate in an experiment about ‘memory and learning’” (2008)

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    authority and personal conscience. Milgram set up this experiment at Yale University to test how much pain an ordinary citizen would inflict on another person just because an experimental scientist ordered him to. Virtually one thousand adults were observed in this experiment‚ and several different conditions were launched to find a limit to which the candidate would continue the order

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    In the Milgram Experiment‚ a number of people where chosen to take memory test. If the subject did not correctly remember the words that were given‚ they would receive an electric shock. Also the person who was giving the electric shock was being evaluated as well‚ as to see their reactions when it came to delivering the punishment of being wrong. They were told that the shocks would not be as painful and that the person taking the exam would be fine. Every time the learner would make a mistake‚

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    smallest zone of inhibition as it was the cheapest. The sponges results were also interesting as there was no clearly seen zone of inhibitions that were noticeable enough to be able to measure. Discussion The results that were gained from this experiment refute the hypothesis. It refute the hypothesis as the most expensive detergent (morning fresh) did not have the largest zone of inhibition. Evaluate interesting aspects of

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