We discussed the ethics of J.B. Watson's work with "Little Albert" in class. Here is a list of 10 bizarre studies, most of which are psychological (and the two that are not make for interesting speculation regarding the psychology of the researcher).
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626281.600-top-10-bizarre-experiments.html?full=true
wow, some of those are the most unethical experiments ever. lol
ReplyDeleteWho would give an Elephant LSD at 3000 times the legal dose? And how horrible is it that someone wanted to measure facial expressions while making his subjects decapitate a rat... and if they wouldn't do it, he'd decapitate it for them. How awful. I think I'm an animal lover since both those studies appalled me.
This just shows the lengths researchers will go to to study something (for whatever crazy reason)
It goes back to the Little Albert story on how easily testing can turn unethic.