WWII Human Experiments: The Angel Of Death
Research Paper
My sentence at Auschwitz began in March 1944. Everyday I was submerged into boiling water which made my flesh burn and made me want to scream in agony but I could not. Weakness in front of Him would be a death sentence. When I was forced under the boiling water, I wasn't given the luxury of air. Every time I came up for air a stick was there to push me back down. This occurred for 10 minutes. 600 seconds of anguish for his 600 seconds of pleasure watching me try and escape as though he was watching his prey take their final breath. If you looked at Him all you would see were his pitch-black eyes, a straight stance and a deep, wide grin feeding on your pain. The Angel of Death would without hesitation remove me from the boiling …show more content…
Critics also claim the researchers could use the information to properly conduct the experiments loosely based on the human experiments. To make sure there was the least amount of outrage associated with the usage of these experiments, you clearly would need to cite the patients and explain the atrocities they have suffered. According to them, this recognition of them being humans and their suffering would be enough of an acknowledgment. (Cohen)
Although there is some compelling evidence for the utilization of these human experiments, the reasons this research should be discarded has more merit. Japanese WWII Human Experimentation clinics, such as Unit 731, should not be used nor help influence scientific research in the modern day. Human experiments that took place at Unit 731 were as follows; vivisection, germ warfare attacks, frostbite testing and transmission of syphilis. The transmission of syphilis was orchestrated by the doctors forcing sexual acts between infected and uninfected prisoners to transmit the disease. If you resisted, you would be shot. After victims were …show more content…
The Nazis research conducted can not be used because it is not science, it is motivated through racial hatred and took place with cruel and eerie intentions. Both the Japanese and Nazis experiments took place with less qualified doctors and poor experimental design in addition the Nazis documents were never published (What). Though some will claim that the tainted nature of the data stems from the circumstances surrounding their collection, there is undoubtedly sufficient evidence to argue that both the science employed by the Nazis and the qualifications of the “doctors” were questionable at best. Ethical guidelines for human research help to protect subjects, but also ensure that accurate and translatable results can be collected from the experiments. Jonathan Steinberg quite intelligently wrote, “Ethicality is thus intrinsically tied to scientific validity, and likewise unethical research leads to “bad science,”” which includes a subject pool and experimental design that can't be replicated, skewed background science, and inconsistencies in reported results. Aside from the unethical nature of the protocols, the conditions of the subjects can in no way be replicated, and it is likely that results obtained from these subjects would be significantly different from data collected from healthy subjects. Additionally, the “science” purported by the Nazis
My sentence at Auschwitz began in March 1944. Everyday I was submerged into boiling water which made my flesh burn and made me want to scream in agony but I could not. Weakness in front of Him would be a death sentence. When I was forced under the boiling water, I wasn't given the luxury of air. Every time I came up for air a stick was there to push me back down. This occurred for 10 minutes. 600 seconds of anguish for his 600 seconds of pleasure watching me try and escape as though he was watching his prey take their final breath. If you looked at Him all you would see were his pitch-black eyes, a straight stance and a deep, wide grin feeding on your pain. The Angel of Death would without hesitation remove me from the boiling …show more content…
Critics also claim the researchers could use the information to properly conduct the experiments loosely based on the human experiments. To make sure there was the least amount of outrage associated with the usage of these experiments, you clearly would need to cite the patients and explain the atrocities they have suffered. According to them, this recognition of them being humans and their suffering would be enough of an acknowledgment. (Cohen)
Although there is some compelling evidence for the utilization of these human experiments, the reasons this research should be discarded has more merit. Japanese WWII Human Experimentation clinics, such as Unit 731, should not be used nor help influence scientific research in the modern day. Human experiments that took place at Unit 731 were as follows; vivisection, germ warfare attacks, frostbite testing and transmission of syphilis. The transmission of syphilis was orchestrated by the doctors forcing sexual acts between infected and uninfected prisoners to transmit the disease. If you resisted, you would be shot. After victims were …show more content…
The Nazis research conducted can not be used because it is not science, it is motivated through racial hatred and took place with cruel and eerie intentions. Both the Japanese and Nazis experiments took place with less qualified doctors and poor experimental design in addition the Nazis documents were never published (What). Though some will claim that the tainted nature of the data stems from the circumstances surrounding their collection, there is undoubtedly sufficient evidence to argue that both the science employed by the Nazis and the qualifications of the “doctors” were questionable at best. Ethical guidelines for human research help to protect subjects, but also ensure that accurate and translatable results can be collected from the experiments. Jonathan Steinberg quite intelligently wrote, “Ethicality is thus intrinsically tied to scientific validity, and likewise unethical research leads to “bad science,”” which includes a subject pool and experimental design that can't be replicated, skewed background science, and inconsistencies in reported results. Aside from the unethical nature of the protocols, the conditions of the subjects can in no way be replicated, and it is likely that results obtained from these subjects would be significantly different from data collected from healthy subjects. Additionally, the “science” purported by the Nazis