3. Project Sunshine
Don’t let the name fool you; there’s nothing sunny about this research assignment. Project Sunshine was a government-run research study duirng the 1950s where samples of recently deceased babies and children were taken for government testing. These samples were used to study the effects of nuclear radiation. The thing is, parents of these kids did not consent to these testings, so they wouldn’t know what had happened until they saw their deceased baby was missing a leg.[8]
These “body snatches” were not only for young children, though. More than 900 samples were taken from human cadavers, most of which were taken without any permission or information being given to the next of kin. President Clinton made sure that the description of the project was no longer kept secret, so the files were revealed to the public, accepting the fact that the contents were both unethical and overall unjust.