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Re: Unethical human experimentation in the United States

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1. Please do not write your own headlines!

Your title: "Human experimentation in the United States"

The article title: "Unethical human experimentation in the United States"

Notice the crucial missing word?

2. The article unfortunately left out pre-frontal lobotomy, a disastrous procedure that was almost always administered without informed consent.

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1. Please do not write your own headlines! Your title: "Human experimentation in the United States" The article title: "Unethical human experimentation in the United States" Notice the crucial missing word? 2. The article unfortunately left out pre-frontal lobotomy, a disastrous procedure that was almost always administered without informed consent.

You are right but I did not do that on the purpose of alterning the original meaning, I just copied it straight off the link url which is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un... Then when I noticed it, I thought that even in this form it evocates an unpleasant feeling...

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1. Please do not write your own headlines! Your title: "Human experimentation in the United States" The article title: "Unethical human experimentation in the United States" Notice the crucial missing word? 2. The article unfortunately left out pre-frontal lobotomy, a disastrous procedure that was almost always administered without informed consent.

You are right but I did not do that on the purpose of alterning the original meaning, I just copied it straight off the link url which is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un... Then when I noticed it, I thought that even in this form it evocates an unpleasant feeling...

You'll see that it says "redirected from ...". If Wikipedia redirects you from X to Y it will still use the URL for X. To get the canonical name for the page, I click on "Talk" and then back to "Article."

Human experimentation is extremely common. Why does it give you an unpleasant feeling? I volunteer for a couple experiments while in psychology class in college. I've done human factors studies on people. Both of these are human experiments. In both, the experiments follow ethical practices, like informing the subject that they can quit at any time.

When the city tests out different traffic light patterns, perhaps to improve traffic flow, it's also doing experiments on humans. A/B testing of a web site is yet another common form of human testing.

These are all acceptable and ethical examples of human experimentation. That's why you need to include "unethical" in your statement.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right but I did not do that on the purpose of alterning the original meaning, I just copied it straight off the link url which is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_Un... Then when I noticed it, I thought that even in this form it evocates an unpleasant feeling...

You'll see that it says "redirected from ...". If Wikipedia redirects you from X to Y it will still use the URL for X. To get the canonical name for the page, I click on "Talk" and then back to "Article." Human experimentation is extremely common. Why does it give you an unpleasant feeling? I volunteer for a couple experiments while in psychology class in college. I've done human factors studies on people. Both of th…

My answer is.. implicitness through common sense.

"Human Experimentation" commonly evocate something wrong, and guess why?

That's exactly because of what you can read in that article..

Or more generally because of the kind of world we live in, which, I am sad to remind you, it's not perfect.

So I guess there is nothing wrong in titling something for what's commonly expected to refer to.

Nonetheless I've edited the title :)

Re: Unethical human experimentation in the United States

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I wonder why the Milgram Experiment made the list but not the Stanford Prison Experiment...

The Milgram Experiment does happen to shine a bright light on collectivism (it only takes one person to do the right thing, for everyone else to follow their example), while the Stanford Prison Experiment shines a darker light (or violet i guess?) on collectivism.

Maybe it could have been omitted due to a bias, or the editors just didn't think to add it?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll see that it says "redirected from ...". If Wikipedia redirects you from X to Y it will still use the URL for X. To get the canonical name for the page, I click on "Talk" and then back to "Article." Human experimentation is extremely common. Why does it give you an unpleasant feeling? I volunteer for a couple experiments while in psychology class in college. I've done human factors studies on people. Both of th…

My answer is.. implicitness through common sense. "Human Experimentation" commonly evocate something wrong, and guess why? That's exactly because of what you can read in that article.. Or more generally because of the kind of world we live in, which, I am sad to remind you, it's not perfect. So I guess there is nothing wrong in titling something for what's commonly expected to refer to. Nonetheless I've edited the ti…

I think you might mean 'evoke'.

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My answer is.. implicitness through common sense. "Human Experimentation" commonly evocate something wrong, and guess why? That's exactly because of what you can read in that article.. Or more generally because of the kind of world we live in, which, I am sad to remind you, it's not perfect. So I guess there is nothing wrong in titling something for what's commonly expected to refer to. Nonetheless I've edited the ti…

I think you might mean 'evoke'.

yes thanks for correcting me
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