A Question Of Ethics
It is no secret that the history of science has been riddled with mistakes. There was a time when it was believed that leeches could cure everything, lobotomies solved mental illnesses, and alcohol would cause the inhabitation of spirits. Of course, we now know these are all untrue. Mistakes like these have added to the many ethical problems in science. However, we would like to focus on the problem of human testing. We have learned that it is not very wise to use humans as test subjects. In other words, we should try remedies and cures on animals as they do not feel the same level of pain that we do.
A Question Of Ethics
An Accidental Experiment
This is the reason why a situation like this was never expected. Although Soviet Russia is replete with its own scientific malpractice over the years, even they would not have approved of the act of shoving someone’s head right inside a particle accelerator. You would think otherwise when you know that Lysenko should be held responsible for the massive famine across the union, but such an experiment is way too dangerous. This is made even clearer upon the realization that humans will experience concrete damage from being hit by the speedy particles. When you look at natural experiments, it is easy to see why everyone is so curious what came of this extraordinarily unfortunate man.
An Accidental Experiment
