evil human [Music] experiments all right fellas let's start things off a little easy back in the 4th Century BC Greek civilization was reaching New Heights people were getting more and more curious about the world around us and began asking really important questions what does that do how does that work should I do a how do magnet me back is this real life or is this just Shri the rice or not all pretty valid questions for people just wishing to learn the workings of the natural world while many focus on the mechanics of the universe others
chose to focus on the inner workings of humans themselves and not only from a philosophical standpoint sometimes you just want to know what makes us tick that's what Greek physician herophilus wanted to find out and document in detail after getting his education at the hippocration medical school in Greece herophilus turned his bulging eyes towards the city of Alexandria Egypt with its big throbbing Library chalk full of Scrolls just begging to be read time to go to Egypt he said and so he didot after getting himself established and taking on a student a young physician named
ayrus they got to work together the two men would begin to carve out a new branch of science Anatomy but in order to do so you need some bodies to cut open to start slopping their guts around and what better way to obtain fresh bodies than to use condemned criminals captured and supplied by the alexandrian ruler little hero and era were like kids in a candy store with a hopeful glimmer in their eyes excited to begin their wondrous experiments but surely the criminals put under the knife were already past their expiration date right nope instead
hero and era performed live human dissections called vivisections to broaden their understanding of the human body they even went as far as to perform these surgeries in full view of the public for anyone who thought it would be cool and interesting wow that's both cool and interesting that's what I'm saying herophilus documented their findings in extreme detail making breakthrough discoveries of the human anatomy in doing so he inflicted unimaginable suffering to his subjects since anesthetics weren't really a thing back then the victims felt every cut and slice at least until they passed out from the
pain or died of blood loss dissecting intestines reproductive organs eyes or even purposefully damaging the motor nerves to inflict paralysis it was basically a big game of what does this button do in the end hero and era's findings over 40 years of Viva sections were revolutionary for the medical world especially since human dissection would be outlawed shortly after the work was completed it wouldn't be until 1,800 years later that performing human dissections would be a medically acceptable practice ice again but like you know on dead people their work was stored in the renowned Library of
Alexandria but they were lost in the great fire a few hundred years [Music] later project 4.1 was actually a side project proposed immediately after the deployment of Castle Bravo a high yield thermonuclear bomb that was dropped in 1954 by the United States Bravo was part of operation CLE a series of other high yield nuclear tests with the goal of establishing superiority over the Soviet Union the Marshall Islands a remote Pacific group of islands served as ground zero for the detonation of the nuclear weapons Castle Bravo was the strongest detonation and surprisingly produced 2 and 1
half times the expected explosive yield resulting in an explosive force equivalent to 15 megatons of TNT to put that into perspective that is 1,000 times the explosive force of the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima Japan in the final days of World War II like godamn to make matters worse the Marshall Islands were occupied with citizens so us officials were kind of like uh sir shouldn't we get those people out of the bless you thanks sir Allergies have been bothering me all day must be the radiation right no but seriously are we going to get those
people out of the U out of the r radiation Zone yeah you know that was on my to-do list well too late now so let's just see how things turn out operation Castle was quickly amended with the addition of project 4.1 this new section aimed to study the human response to significant radiation exposure you know as if tens of thousands of victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't evidence enough commander of the US Naval Medical Corps Eugene kronite was in charge of the project and swore everyone involved to Absolute secrecy because he thought the public wouldn't
be too keen on the whole test nuclear radiation on non-consenting people thing overall 239 Marshal e residents were exposed to significant levels of radiation and began showing signs of radiation poisoning a few days later symptoms included loss of hair and significant skin damage with weeping wounds although the wounds did heal rather quickly immediate observations ceased after 75 days with the conclusion that no long-term effects were likely but just out of curiosity regular checkups were performed on the residents for years after women saw increases in miscarriages and still births and newborns that survived experienced developmental difficulties
impaired growth and a disproportionate development of thyroid cancer in addition about onethird of those exposed had developed significant tumors by 1974 20 years after operation Castle commenced in the following years Marshal's Representatives spoke out against the United States with accusations that the scope of the experiment was premeditated and intentional to which the US officials responded [Music] nuh-uh during the early years of the Soviet Union it wouldn't be uncommon for political opponents to quickly fall ill with a strong case of the death at the hands of poison in fact it was quite an effective and discreet
way to silence any and all opposition without causing too much of a stir well besides the public reacting to mysterious deaths and that is why we must rise up against them oh look at that they got another one so how were the Soviets so good at developing successful poisons well you've got to run preliminary trials on living subjects of course so in 1921 a year before the Soviet Union officially formed the Kam was established this was the Soviet Secret Services poison laboratory here new deadly poisons were developed and tested on human subjects those tested were
prisoners from the Googs various labor camps built around the country for anyone who even had a fleeting thought that wasn't approved by the Soviet Union Kion the ultimate goal of the comma was to devise a poison that was not only lethal but undetectable it would be colorless tasteless odorless and untraceable in an autopsy prisoners would be unknowingly admin ministered various test poisons which were disguised as medication for me if it isn't an orange Flintstone vitamin I don't trust it the various poisons tested included rysen which causes severe internal distress and suffering cyanide which can cause
violent seizures and heart attacks and kurari a potent muscle relaxant that makes you painfully choke to death in the end the tests were pretty successful for the Soviet Union not for the prisoners research led to innovative ways to discreetly dis patch a target from deploying a cyanide Mist to making an assassination look like a heart attack but the Blue Ribbon winner was the concoction known as C2 caramine choline chloride which was basically liquid depression exposure to this sucker sparked a very curious reaction instead of a violent Telltale I've been poisoned type death the victim would
simply become weak with a rapid decline in health all while maintaining a calm and silent demeanor death occurred within 15 minutes since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 Russian officials have claimed that the comma has been disestablished and abandoned yeah sure now you may have heard about the tusi syphilis study which was an unethical medical study funded by the United States Public Health Service in 1932 which involved the study of nearly 400 african- American men who had naturally contracted syphilis the goal was to observe the effects of the disease when left untreated in
African-American males even though penicillin an antibiotic cure for Syphilis eventually became widely available to the public The Afflicted men were intentionally never cured up right well the US decided to outdo themselves with the Guatemalan syphilis experiment in 1946 to 1948 more than 5,500 Guatemalan natives included children were involved in the experiment against their will with the Guatemalan government granting access to the unwilling patients in hospitals mental institutions and even orphanages around 1300 relatively healthy individuals ages 10 to 72 were intentionally infected with syphilis and even gonorrhea transmission was either done by direct bacterial contact into
wounds or by sexual transmission with infected native sex workers which were funded by the US government by away the latter of which proved to be a very effective method of infection the guy in charge of these experiments was Dr John C Cutler but you can call him Dr dickass he often failed to keep accurate medical records of his experiments and instead would only provide anecdotal evidence in his findings probably because he knew what he was doing was unethical which very much sounds like something only a dickass would do but all joking aside the experiments conducted
on these people were gruesome perhaps one of the most notable documented examples of what these people experienced was about a female patient named berda the following is an excerpt from that document berda was a female patient in the psychiatric hospital in February 1948 Berto was injected in her left arm with syphilis a month later she developed scabies several weeks later Dr Cutler noted that she had also developed red bumps where he had injected her arm lesions on her arms and legs and her skin was beginning to waste away from her body Berto was not treated
for syphilis until 3 months after her injection soon after on August 23rd Dr Cutler wrote that Berta appeared as if she was going to die but he did not specify why that same day he put garal pus from another male subject into both of berta's eyes as well as her private areas he also reinfected her with syphilis several days later berto's eyes were filled with pus from the ganaria and she was bleeding from her private area 3 days later on August 27th Verda died told you he was a dickass the overall goal of the study
was to determine the effectiveness of penicillin in preventing the STDs Dr Cutler had allegedly finalized his reports in 1955 but no evidence was ever found proving that the reports were submitted for peer review or even published so out of all of that suffering nothing of medical value was produced though I will say in some glimmer of fairness a treatment program was established by the United States and made available to the affected Guatemalan population but only half were reported to actually have received treatments with a questionable quality of care United States President Barack Obama formally apologized
the Guatemalan government in 2010 62 years after the study was performed yeah that last one was quite the doozy huh well buckle up cuz it's about to get way worse see this right here this is Unit 731 it was home to some of the most notorious and truly evil war crimes committed by the Japanese in World War II which are definitely up there with some of the worst in the history of mankind Unit 731 served as a lethal human experimentation and biological weapons laboratory during the second Sino Japanese war between China and Japan which ran
concurrent to most of the events of World War II this nightmare facility was established in 1935 in the subprovincial Chinese city of Harbin 4 years after Japanese forces invaded the Chinese region of manura inside hundreds of thousands of Chinese and even some Russian prisoners of War were subjected to some of the most egregious and horrifying human experimentations known to man experiments performed on men women and and children which is everyone those chosen for experimentation were dehumanized and referred to as maruta or logs rather than as people because the coverup story for Unit 731 was that
it was a lumber mill it should be noted that the vast majority of the experiments in the facility were carried out to fulfill morbid curiosity with those performing or overseeing the studies described as merely playing a testimony from a Japanese Professor who witnessed the studies was quoted saying that some of the experiments had nothing to do with advancing the capability of germ warfare or of medicine there is such a thing as professional curiosity what would happen if we did such and such what medical purpose was served by performing and studying beheadings none at all that
was just playing around professional people too like to play so basically experiments were like huh I wonder what would happen if we just hucked a grenade at a guy bang oh look he he exploded hey can I go home now gee I wonder if this large heavy object will crush this guy yep will this guy freeze to death if I freeze him to death wow who would have guessed a lot of these experiments were designed to test the absolute limits of the human body tests included depriving victims of food or water to see how long
they could survive placing victims in low pressure Chambers until their eyes popped from their skulls injecting victims with animal blood hanging victims upside down until death or even draining victims of blood just to study blood loss limits some victims were even dehydrated in front of large hot fans to the point of mummification at the time of death they only weighed 20% of their initial body weight perhaps one of the worst examples I've read was the forced pregnancy of female victims the mothers were injected with various diseases and drugs just to see how they affected the
unborn child sometimes performing a Viva section cutting the fetus out of the mother for examination there's honestly so many more gruesome experiments that I I just can't get into here so if you are curious I would encourage you to look them up but it's like legit really bad so you've been warned by the end of the war as Soviet forces were closing in Japanese officials had all remaining prisoners executed and the entirety of unit 731 hastily demolished to destroy any remaining evidence of the program's existence the United States had discovered trace evidence and pressured Japanese
officials into spilling the beans under threat that they would be handed over to Soviet officials for trial and Punishment if they did not cooperate once the US learned the full extent of the horrors of Unit 731 all of those involved were swiftly brought to trial and executed for their crimes except no they actually weren't in reality the United States claimed that the data collected from the inhumane atrocities was actually pretty valuable since it is otherwise ethically unobtainable through conventional means as such many of those involved were granted immunity and freedom in exchange for the data
the deal was struck and the United States kept everything under lock and key the Soviet Union however pursued trials against the top military leaders and scientists from Unit 731 in the end only 12 individuals were tried and sentenced to several years in labor camps although the United States repeatedly denied that Unit 731 ever existed well that was a bummer here's something to cheer you up I'll see you over there
