Every one of these was signed off. Not leaked, not rogue approved, in writing, by someone whose job it was to say no.
A chemist who spiked a colleague’s drink. A twenty-year-old told he was helping
cure the common cold. Boys bought with a wristwatch and a baseball ticket. A
programme that collected bones without asking the families. A city sprayed with
bacteria from a ship. And a study that ran for forty years after the cure existed.
Ten experiments, in order, in eleven minutes. Every date, name and number checked against primary sources the list is below.
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00:00 Project MKUltra
01:05 Operation Midnight Climax
02:05 Porton Down and Ronald Maddison
03:00 The Fernald Science Club
04:02 Project Sunshine
04:59 Operation Sea-Spray
06:00 Holmesburg Prison
07:01 The Guatemala Experiments
08:08 Unit 731
09:14 The Tuskegee Study
10:20 The Pattern
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A few things worth saying:
– Where historians disagree, the video says so. Whether Operation Sea-Spray killed
Edward Nevin is genuinely disputed, and the video does not pretend otherwise.
– Two of these Unit 731 and Midnight Climax are told with restraint on purpose. The facts are all there. The details are not, and they do not need to be.
– Every case ends the same way: not because the science failed, but because one person talked. That is the actual subject of the video.
SOURCES
MKUltra β National Security Archive, Senate Select Committee hearing (1977)
Midnight Climax β San Francisco Chronicle archive
Porton Down β Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics; 2004 inquest verdict
Fernald β Smithsonian Magazine; MIT News, 1998 settlement
Project Sunshine β Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments (1995)
Sea-Spray β KQED investigation; Nevin v. United States
Holmesburg β Philadelphia Inquirer, city apology (2022); Alliance for Human Research Protection
Guatemala β Britannica; Washington Post, 1 October 2010
Unit 731 β Santa Clara University WWII archive; declassified MacArthur cable (1947)
Tuskegee β CDC; Associated Press, 25 July 1972 (Jean Heller)
This video is for education. Please do not use it as your only source the
material above is public and worth reading yourself.
Subtitles are available in the player and are hand-checked.
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