This week in class we discussed the psychology research
ethics and went over a few unethical experiments. The basic ethics of
psychology are consent, deception, debriefing, withdrawal, confidentiality, and
protection. Without all or at least one of these, the experiment is pretty
unethical. I found the experiments we learned about in class very disturbing
but very interesting so I decided to go out and find unethical experiment of my
own to research. There was this website I found that actually showed the top
ten unethical experiments, however, we went over all of them in class so I
looked at the top ten evil human experiments. This is what I found…
During the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, there
was this chemical and biological warfare and development unit called Unit 731.
Unit 731 was created by the Imperial Japanese Army and was responsible for some
of Japan’s worst war crimes. The commander, Shiro Ishii preformed most of the
horrific experiments on Chinese and Russian prisoners. The basics of Unit 731
was to do tests on the prisoners to see how they could deal with the same issue
if it came up later with their soldiers. This was, in a way, a created case
study. Shiro Ishii would take the limbs of the prisoners, amputate, and sew
them back on in a different spot on their bodies. Another test he put the
prisoners through was freezing parts of their bodies and then thawing them in
hopes of creating gangrene so they know the result if it is left untreated.
They used prisoners to see how a grenades and flamethrowers would affect a
person if thrown at them. The last major test was to study the effects of
untreated diseases like syphilis, gonorrhea, plague, and others. After injecting,
sometimes they would cut open the victim while he was awake to see what the
diseases did to the inside of the human body.
Obviously all of the tests done and the whole unit in
general was highly unethical and unnecessary. Unfortunately, Shiro Ishii was
never convicted for the horrible experiments he inflicted on the prisoners, but
he died at the age of 67 from throat cancer.
More about Unit 731
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| Shiro Ishii |
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| Bodies disposed after Until 731 |
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| Vivisection of a pregnant girl after being raped |
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| Vivisection of a man infected with plague. |
Vivisection is to preform operations on live people or animals.
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