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Researchers thought abnormal behavior was caused by demonic possession, so they used methods of trephination to experiment.
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600 poor black farmers were studied by the US public health service to document diseases in blacks, without telling them about the diseases or curing them
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Nazis would perform experiments on homosexuals, jews, and other people they did not see as the Arien race.
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After WW2 a set of ethical laws were put in place to protect humans
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Code was designed to set regulations for experiments on humans to protect them.
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Researcher Laud Humphries would act as a homosexual man to observe public behaviors
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24 prisoners were selected at random to act as prisoners and guards and it was found that reasonable people can change when backed by ideological authority
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The National Commision for the Protection of human subjects of biomedical and behavioral studies met and released the Belmont Report to clarify experiments
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Federal laws were put in place to protect human participants in experiments.
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HIPA requires researchers to keep results found in experiments private from the publics eye.
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Today, research is guided by ethics code under standard 8 of the American Psychological Association to protect human participants.