One of the most unethical human experiments of all time involved scaring a young child called Little Albert, and they went ...

Human experimentation made many modern medical advances possible—but history shows what happens when ethics are ignored. Across wars, regimes, and institutions, people were subjected to cruel and ...

The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what happened then ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people ...

The clash between African health leaders and the Trump administration over a controversial vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau has quickly become a test of who sets the ethical rules for research on the ...

The U.S. government drilled a hole into retired Air Force Col. Robert Lindseth’s heart more than 60 years ago because the country wanted to go to the moon and it was not sure how to get there and back ...

President Trump is trying to save money by terminating leases on facilities used by federal agencies. One of these is EPA’s Human Studies Facility located at the University of North Carolina-Chapel ...