unethical psychological experimentation theme
It is discussed whether a psychological experiment can be considered ethical.
Examples
Dr. Tristan Adams used a device to break people's minds and turn them into zombies in tos1x10 "Dagger of the Mind", all in the name of medical science.
5 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 1 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tos1x10 | choice | Adams with his contraption |
| movie: A Great Space Voyage (1975) | major | The modern viewer cannot help but to question whether locking up three children in a fancy flights simulator and sending them on what they believed to be a perilous space voyage was very ethical. |
| movie: Chosen Survivors (1974) | major | Ten people were selected without their consent to simulate the keeping of people in an underground bomb shelter in a post-nuclear holocaust setting. |
| voy4x17 | major | the Doctor's guilt in influencing Seven |
| nightgallery3x08 | minor | In spite of the warden's reservations, the doctor let the experiments go on because of professional curiosity. |