One of the most unethical experiments in the history is the monkey drug trails in 1969. It consisted of a large group of monkeys that were tought how to inject themselves different types of drugs. After the monkeys had learned how to inject themselves they were left in a cage with large amounts of different drugs. The monkeys after a certain time were highly disturbed and the majority of them tried to harm themselves by breaking their, arms ripping hair of, or suffered of severe cunvulsions. This experiment was ment to understand the effects of adiction and drug use. It is considered unethical because of horrendus way the monkeys were treated to find out things that could've been found by common sense or by making other experiments with a more controled variables.
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