👉 One infamous human experiment was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which ran from 1932 to 1972, where African American men were deliberately left untreated for syphilis without their informed consent. Another example is the Milgram Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s, which investigated obedience to authority and resulted in participants administering increasingly painful electric shocks to another person when instructed by an authority figure, despite their own distress.
