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7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 5:06pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
We all watch the movies : A scientist or group of scientists secretly build a mutant, mutant start attacking people. Hero kills the mutant without a scratch, saves the girl, and everyone goes home happy. Science has proven to be quite ambitious; vying to find solution and causes to phenomenas that has been boggling us. Unfortunately not all ambitions are healthy and the only way to confirm some theories is extremely immoral. The Nazi and US human experimentation further proves that. As an aftermath of human experimenter, a lot of potentially useful experiment has been banned by the ever strict boards. Here are some experiment which will benefit mankind if only they weren't so unethical. You ready?? Leggo 1) HUMAN CLONING : ( the making of new humans asexually) We have all heard of cloning and marveled at its wonders (even if it hasn't gotten to Nigeria yet). The various advantages and disadvantages of it should be quite common to us. However cloning a human isn't allowed. Do not think it will be an easy task; the human body is made up of some octillion (10^27) atoms and to get it right will be friggin challenging. But if it were perfected, it will answer some great philosophical questions: - Is the soul real or a fable - Will the clone retain a person's behaviour or will it be like a baby - Is the mind a one on one thing or can it be shared amongst two people. - Is "body-switching" between the two possible?? But alas, we will never know, Human Cloning stinks too much of Hitler..........
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Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Donald3d(m): 5:09pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
If this does not get to FP then all the mods and all what they have being doing is unethical .Nice one OP i am following |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 5:15pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
2) HUMAN MUTATION: Mutation, as we know, is a principal part in evolution hence the need for it if humans are to evolve. Unfortunately, mutation doesn't just work quite right: It is usually harmful; rarely benefical. The Hiroshima babies, Chernobyl people just further confirms that theory. However, there have been cases of humans who have experienced benefical mutation. There has been some people who have evolved a resistance to malaria, people who have extremely clear visions underwater, people who has even developed an immunity to HIV!!!! Surely, mutation will take the human race to the next evolutionary stage if allowed to occur. It would be quite easy really. All we need is a female test subject who is just some weeks pregnant and we expose her to some radiation (mild, or intense depending on the expected result). We can also perform gene splicing (removal of a certain gene, addition of one) to the foetus before birth. We monitor the foetus growth and record the result (ugly or pretty). By the time the baby is born, his life is carefully studied and the result will almost certainly further prove/disprove evolution, depending on the result. Mutation will also make us able to bring ourselves to the next specie; whatever it might be. But alas, mutation, like cloning is reminiscent of the days of WWII, Hiroshima to be precise. Besides, there is absolutely no way any medical board will allow this to happen
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Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 5:24pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
3) BRAIN SAMPLING : Donating live brain cells for analysis You might donate blood or hair for scientific research, but how about a tiny slice of your brain—while you’re still alive? Medical ethics wouldn’t let you consent to that even if you wanted to, and for good reason: It’s an invasive surgery with serious risks. But if enough healthy patients agreed, it could help answer a huge question: How does nurture affect nature, and vice versa? Although scientists recognize in principle that our environment can alter our DNA, they have few documented examples of how these so-called epigenetic changes happen and with what consequences. Animal studies suggest the consequences could be profound. A 2004 McGill University study of lab rats found that certain maternal behaviors can silence a gene in the hippocampi of their pups, leaving them less able to handle stress hormones. In 2009, a McGill-led team got a hint of a similar effect in humans: In the brains of dead people who had been abused as children and then committed suicide, the analogous gene was largely inhibited. But what about in living brains? When does the shift happen? With brain sampling, we might come to understand the real neurologic toll of child abuse and potentially a great deal more than that. The process is really quite simple: Researchers would obtain brain cells just as a surgeon does when conducting a biopsy: After lightly sedating the patient, they would attach a head ring with four pins, using local anesthetic to numb the skin. A surgeon would make an incision a few millimeters wide in the scalp, drill a small hole through the skull, and insert a biopsy needle to grab a tiny bit of tissue. A thin slice would be sufficient, since you need only a few micrograms of DNA. Assuming no infection or surgical error, damage to the brain would be minimal. The advantage?: Such an experiment might answer some deep questions about how we learn. Does reading turn on genes in the prefrontal cortex, the site of higher-order cognition? Does spending lots of time at a batting cage alter the epigenetic status of genes in the motor cortex? Does watching Nollywood filmtricks alter genes in whatever brain you have left? By correlating experiences with the DNA in our heads, we could better understand how the whole correlation works; and we're a step closer to understand the mind. But alas, Medical Ethics says NO WAY.
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Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 5:42pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
4) HUMAN INTERSPECIES-BREEDING (crossing a human with a chimpanzee) Of all unethical experiments, this would probably be the one that no scientists would dare come close to. Any paper published on the results would be shut down, rejected, denied and even burnt. What a shame. What a shame. Stephen Jay Gould, the staunch evolutionist, called it “the most potentially interesting and ethically unacceptable experiment I can imagine.” The idea? Mating a human with a chimpanzee! His interest in this monstrosity grew out of his work with snails, closely related species of which can display wide variation in shell architecture. Gould attributed this diversity to a few master genes, which turn on and off the shared genes responsible for constructing the shells. Perhaps, he hypothesized, the large visible differences between humans and apes were also a factor of developmental timing. He pointed out that adult humans have physical traits, such as larger craniums and wide-set eyes, that resemble infant chimpanzees, a phenomenon known as neoteny—the retention of juvenile traits in adults. Gould theorized that over the course of evolution, a tendency toward neoteny might have helped give rise to human beings. By watching the development of a half-human, half-chimp, researchers could explore this theory in a firsthand (and truly disgusting) way. How it works: It would probably be frighteningly easy: The same techniques used for in vitro fertilization would likely yield a viable hybrid human-chimp embryo. (Researchers have already spanned a comparable genetic gap in breeding a rhesus monkey with a baboon.) Chimps have 24 pairs of chromosomes, and humans 23, but this is not an absolute barrier to breeding. The offspring would likely have an odd number of chromosomes, though, which might make them unable to reproduce themselves. As for the gestation and birth, it could be done the natural way. Chimpanzees are born slightly smaller than humans, on average— around 4 pounds—and so comparative anatomy would argue for growing the embryo in a human uterus. The advantage(s) : Gould’s idea about neoteny remains controversial, to say the least. (some claim it has racist undertones). This forbidden experiment would help to resolve that debate and, in a broader sense, illuminate how two species with such similar genomes could be so different. Its outcome would take biologists deep into the origin of the species we care about most: ourselves. Oh, and it will also explain why OBJ ...............never mind
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Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 6:26pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
5) HEAD TO BODY TRANSPLANT (attaching a man's head to another man's body): This is one of the main bane for sci-fi novels from the 1900's to now the 21st Century. Last year, an Italian Doctor, Dr Canevaro, proposed that he had found the solution to the head to body transplant problem. His theory is batshit crazy but let us for the sake of argument accept it actually works. The advantage involved in such transplant is simple : Immortality.
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Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 6:32pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
6) Seperating IDENTICAL TWINS: In the quest to to discern the difference between nature and nurture, researchers have one obvious resource: identical twins, two people whose genes are nearly 100 percent the same. But twins almost always grow up together, in essentially the same environment. A few studies have been able to track twins separated at a young age, usually by adoption. But it’s impossible to control retroactively for all the ways that the lives of even separated twins are still related. If scientists could control the siblings from the start, they could construct a rigorously designed study. It would be one of the least ethical studies imaginable, but it might be the only way (short of cloning humans for research) that we’d ever solve some big questions about genetics and upbringing. How it works: Expectant mothers of twins would need to be recruited ahead of time so the environments of each sibling could differ from the moment of birth. After choosing what factors to investigate, researchers could construct test homes for the children, ensuring that every aspect of their upbringing, from diet to climate, was controlled and measured. The advantages: Several disciplines would benefit enormously, but none more than psychology, in which the role of upbringing has long been particularly hazy. Developmental psychologists could arrive at some unprecedented insights into personality—finally explaining, for example, why twins raised together can turn out completely different, while those raised apart can wind up very alike
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Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Aremu01(m): 9:11pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
Fascinating
Kudos |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by taurus25(m): 10:28pm On Jan 31, 2016 |
fvck ethics they should try no 4 |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Timothy3113(m): 2:57pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
taurus25:would u volunteer |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by taurus25(m): 3:04pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
Timothy3113:LOL... there are sperm donors now |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 7:41pm On Feb 01, 2016 |
7) Add yours................................... |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by surrogatesng: 3:44pm On Feb 02, 2016 |
i smell frontpage 1 Like |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by taurus25(m): 3:47pm On Feb 02, 2016 |
surrogatesng:yes o......fp material |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Ikennablue(m): 1:06pm On Feb 03, 2016 |
hmmmm |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 5:37pm On Feb 07, 2016 |
bump |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by sinaj(f): 7:26pm On Feb 07, 2016 |
No 5 tho Politicians will have access to immortality No 2 tho, very risky. Wot if they end up creating a monster or anoda disease |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by danidee10(m): 7:42pm On Feb 07, 2016 |
I'm very sure the US and some other countries would be working on at least two of this secretly....that head transplant dosen't mean immortality, the brain will still get old and the cells will die.....and brain cells don't regenerate |
Re: 7 Unethical Experiments That Will Expand Our Knowledge by Nobody: 7:45pm On Feb 07, 2016 |
sinaj:Progress has its risks. |
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