Recently, a batch of old accounts were found in the American scientific community, and a batch of American laboratories were exposed. There have been inhumane and even conscientious scientific experiments.
On October 6, 2022, the mayor of Philadelphia City in the United States issued a statement, unveiling a dark experience in Philadelphia : The Holmes-Pretty Prison Experiment, the one who manipulated everything behind the scenes was actually a scientist. When it comes to laboratory, the first thing that comes to mind is definitely related to science. It can be said that the development of human society cannot be separated from laboratory. This laboratory scandal has given humans a new understanding of scientists and laboratories.
In this regard, the American media commented: Education can only filter out the scumbag, but cannot filter out the scumbag. This comment on is a sharp hit. What kind of experiment has attracted the media to such an evaluation?
Homesburg Prison was built and put into use in 1896. The prison was the largest prison in the United States at that time, and could accommodate thousands of prisoners and was heavily guarded. At that time, the American media described Homsburg as saying that when you step in, you will lose all hope. Every cell here has no windows, no sunshine and freedom.
This heavily guarded prison is mainly detained for serious prisoners. Since its establishment, violent conflicts between prisoners and prison guards have never been interrupted. Using violence to combat violence is also common in prisons, causing a vicious cycle.
European prisons are like star-rated hotels, and prisoners are happy inside, while American prisons are the opposite. American prison is divided into two categories. is public and is responsible for local government finance. The other type is private, contracted and operated by private company . Both types of prison environment treatment are not much better.
Public prisons depend on whether the local government's finances are rich or not. If it is a private prison, life will be even worse. Private contracting is profitable. If the prison does not aim to transform prisoners, but becomes a tool for making money, prisoners are the cheapest labor force.
After World War II , Philadelphia's finances were tight, and the cost of the Homersburg prison was reduced many times. Then the prison conditions are getting worse and worse, and the prisoners are increasingly resistant. Because the prison guards cannot pay their wages on time, they are full of complaints and resentment, and large-scale prison riots break out almost every year. The municipal government believes that all this is because of lack of money.
Later, a scientist took the initiative to send money to his door. The scientist's name is Albert Krugman. is a doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania . He is known for the treatment of dermatology. After obtaining a doctorate in medicine in 1947, he became a dermatology expert . For Krugman who wants to make a name for himself, what he urgently needs is the human experimental subjects. After all, clinical data is very important, but because it is related to human life, it takes a series of very strict reviews to want human experiments. Krugman, who thinks he is smart, has a bad idea and keeps his eyes on the prison.
In his opinion, thousands of prisoners are the subjects of the experiment, neither requiring approval nor anyone pays attention to the failure of the experiment. When he saw the prisoner, it was like a farmer seeing a fertile soil. Later, he gave some of the scientific research expenses to the prison and started the experiment.
Krugman took his team into the prison and started practicing with prisoners. Ethics was left behind by him. The people in the prison didn't know what he was doing. After all, he felt that the doctor of medicine experiments must be thinking about how to save people instead of killing people, so he let him deal with it.
The first experiment conducted by Krugman was the Psoriasis experiment. He applied a large number of different types of fungi to the prisoner's feet, so that the prisoner's slippers were not allowed for one week. After one week, the prisoner's feet naturally had pulmonary dysfunction. So he began to try various drugs, and the experimental results stood out.Since these have been tried with prisoners in prison, the clinical experiment went smoothly afterwards. Krugman suddenly became a hot commodity in the eyes of pharmaceutical companies, and he wanted to experiment with new drugs.
The famous Dow Chemical Company asked Krugman to conduct experiments on the reaction of dioxins to the human body for them. This is a highly toxic substance. Once the skin is stained with light, the skin ulcer will cause severe skin ulceration, which will lead to skin cancer . The chemical weapons used by the US military in , Vietnam War, include it.
This is no longer the scope of developing new drugs. Let’s see what adverse reactions different doses of dioxins will cause to the human body. As the saying goes, money can make the devil push the grind, Krugman, who was obsessed with the rage, agreed without hesitation. So the prisoners in Holmes-safe prison used dioxins, the largest dose was 468 times the safe dose. Part of the prisoners involved in this experiment died of skin cancer, and even if they did not die, they suffered from incurable skin diseases.
What is even more unexpected is that at this time, US Army actually came to the door and asked to cooperate with Krugman's laboratory to let Krugman experiment with a hallucinogen for them. This hallucinogen will produce various hallucinations, which will cause mental disorders in severe cases.
We say that Krugman is a dermatologist, and hallucinogens are obviously not part of the category of skin diseases. So why did the US Army find him? The reason is very simple. It is illegal to use hallucinogens to conduct human experiments. Indirectly, the US official has long known that Krugman had conducted illegal human experiments at Holmes Insurance Regulatory Commission, and just turned a blind eye. Instead, he also used this to let Krigman conduct illegal experiments on them.
Of course, Krugman dared not refuse the request of the US Army. Krugman's experiment on the prisoner's hallucinogen was quite cruel. For example, after injection of hallucinogen, artificially causing trauma, cutting the skin open, causing large-scale scalds when the prisoner jumped into boiling water, and seeing how he reacted. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Krugman also developed scald medicine. This experiment caused great pain to the prisoners, and many prisoners died of this kind of experiment.
Later, Krugman found a cleaner way. Fortunately, he stopped experimenting, but instead acted as a broker, using his connections in the scientific community to peddled his relationship with the Homsburg Prison. It lasted from the 1950s to the 1970s, and lasted for more than 20 years.
After more than half a century, this dark history has finally been revealed.
