Five Unethical Experiments You Couldn't Do Today

Fortunately the Belmont Report and the establishment of the IRB has eliminated most harmful research. But before they were around, plenty of unethical experiments had taken place in our country.

In the following video you will learn about 5 studies that took place before the Belmont Report was published that couldn't be done today due to the new ethical guidelines. The narrator speaks about these studies in terms of psychology, but they are applicable to the purposes of our discussion on ethics in experiments.