Disturbing human experiments aren’t something the average person thinks too much about. Rather, the progress achieved in the last 150 years of human history is an accomplishment we’re reminded of almost daily. Achievements made in fields like biomedicine and psychology mean that we no longer need to worry about things like deadly diseases or masturbation as a form of insanity. For better or worse, we have developed more effective ways to gather information, treat skin abnormalities, and even kill each other. But what we are not constantly reminded of are the human lives that have been damaged or lost in the name of this progress. The following is a list of the 30 most disturbing human experiments in history.  Sociologist Laud Humphreys often wondered about the men who commit impersonal sexual acts with one another in public restrooms. He wondered why “tearoom sex” — fellatio in public restrooms — led to the majority of homosexual arrests in the United States. Humphreys decided to become a “watchqueen” (the person who keeps watch and coughs when a cop or stranger get near) for his Ph.D. dissertation at Washington University. Throughout his research, Humphreys observed hundreds of acts of fellatio and interviewed many of the participants. He found that 54% of his subjects were married, and 38% were very clearly neither bisexual or homosexual. Humphreys’ research shattered a number of stereotypes held by both the public and law enforcement.In 1951, Dr. Albert M. Kligman, a dermatologist at the University of Pennsylvania and future inventor of Retin-A, began experimenting on inmates at Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison. As Kligman later told a newspaper reporter, “All I saw before me were acres of skin. It was like a farmer seeing a field for the first time.” Over the next 20 years, inmates willingly allowed Kligman to use their bodies in experiments involving toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, skin creams, detergents, liquid diets, eye drops, foot powders, and hair dyes. Though the tests required constant biopsies and painful procedures, none of the inmates experienced long-term harm. In 1955, Henrietta Lacks, a poor, uneducated African-American woman from Baltimore, was the unwitting source of cells which where then cultured for the purpose of medical research. Though researchers had tried to grow cells before, Henrietta’s were the first successfully kept alive and cloned. Henrietta’s cells, known as HeLa cells, have been instrumental in the development of the polio vaccine, cancer research, AIDS research, gene mapping, and countless other scientific endeavors. Henrietta died penniless and was buried without a tombstone in a family cemetery. For decades, her husband and five children were left in the dark about their wife and mother’s amazing contribution to modern medicine. n 1954, the CIA developed an experiment called Project QKHILLTOP to study Chinese brainwashing techniques, which they then used to develop new methods of interrogation. Leading the research was Dr. Harold Wolff of Cornell University Medical School. After requesting that the CIA provide him with information on imprisonment, deprivation, humiliation, torture, brainwashing, hypnoses, and more, Wolff’s research team began to formulate a plan through which they would develop secret drugs and various brain damaging procedures. According to a letter he wrote, in order to fully test the effects of the harmful research, Wolff expected the CIA to “make available suitable subjects.”

Poverty incidence among Filipinos¹ in the first semester of 2015 was estimated at 26.3 percent.  During the same period in 2012, poverty incidence among Filipinos was recorded at 27.9 percent ². 

 

On the other hand, subsistence incidence among Filipinos, or the proportion of Filipinos whose incomes fall below the food threshold, was estimated at 12.1 percent in the first semester of 2015. In the first half of 2012, the subsistence incidence among Filipinos is at 13.4 percent ³.  Subsistence incidence among Filipinos is often referred to as the proportion of Filipinos in extreme or subsistence poverty. 

 

Food and Poverty Thresholds

 

Food threshold is the minimum income required to meet basic food needs and satisfy the nutritional requirements set by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) to ensure that one remains economically and socially productive.  It is used to measure extreme or subsistence poverty.  Poverty threshold is a similar concept, expanded to include basic non-food needs such as clothing, housing, transportation, health, and education expenses. 

 

During the first semester of 2015, a family of five needed at least PhP 6,365 on the average every month to meet the family’s basic food needs and at least PhP 9,140 on the average every month to meet both basic food and non-food needs. These amounts represent the monthly food threshold and monthly poverty threshold, respectively. They indicate increases of about 17 percent in food threshold and poverty thresholds from the first semester of 2012 to the first semester of 2015 ⁴.

 

Poverty among Filipino families

 

PSA also releases statistics on poverty among families – a crucial social indicator that guides policy makers in their efforts to alleviate poverty.

The poverty incidence among Filipino families based on the first visit of 2015 FIES was estimated at 21.1 percent during the first semester of 2015.  In the first semester of 2012, the poverty incidence among Filipino families was estimated at 22.3 percent ⁵. 

 

The subsistence incidence among Filipino families, or the proportion of Filipino families in extreme poverty, was estimated at 9.2 percent during the first semester of 2015.  In the same period in 2012, the proportion of families in extreme poverty was recorded at 10.0 percent ⁶.

 

In addition to the thresholds and incidences, the PSA also releases other poverty-related statistics in the report such as the income gap, poverty gap and severity of poverty. The income gap measures the average income required by the poor in order to get out of poverty, expressed relative to the poverty threshold.  The poverty gap refers to the income shortfall (expressed in proportion to the poverty threshold) of families with income below the poverty threshold, divided by the total number of families.  The severity of poverty is the total of the squared income shortfall (expressed in proportion to the poverty threshold) of families with income below the poverty threshold, divided by the total number of families.  This is a poverty measure that is sensitive to income distribution among the poor.

 

In the first semester of 2015, on the average, incomes of poor families were short by 29.0 percent of the poverty threshold. This means that on the average, an additional monthly income of Php 2,649 is needed by a poor family with five members in order to move out of poverty in the first semester of 2015. 

News media organizations often treat specific internet safety issues as fads – after being THE hot topic, issues fall out of favor becoming “old news” in spite of ongoing risks and threats. We’ve seen this with pornography, child predators, chat room risks, meeting strangers and, more recently, sexting. Today’s hot topic is cyberbullying, but given the nature of our media cycles, we should expect to see this join the ranks of “old news” by the end of the year. That isn’t to say these topics aren’t ongoing threats, just that they lose media attention.

Internet pornography was the first big internet safety topic to make news, and it has remained largely out of favor among the popular press ever since. But that doesn’t mean the issues and costs have vanished, or that “it’s just an issue among right-wing prudes.”

The societal costs of pornography are staggering. The financial cost to business productivity in the U.S. alone is estimated at $16.9 Billion annually ; but the human toll, particularly among our youth and in our families, is far greater.

According to Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D, psychologist and former Deputy Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary, “two recent reports, one by the American Psychological Association on hyper-sexualized girls, and the other by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on the pornographic content of phone texting among teenagers, make clear that the digital revolution is being used by younger and younger children to dismantle the barriers that channel sexuality into family lifeⁱⁱ.

Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society. Among adolescents, pornography hinders the development of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sexual attitudes and social realities. In families, pornography use leads to marital dissatisfaction, infidelity, separation, and divorce.”

Here are some of the most credible statistics available today on internet pornography. Note: at the end of this article there are links to three infographics that cover various aspects of the impact of pornography on families.

General pornography stats

• Every second 28,258 users are watching pornography on the internet
• Every second $3,075.64 is being spent on pornography on the internet
• Every second 372 people are typing the word "adult" into search engines
• 40 million American people regularly visit porn sites
• 35% of all internet downloads are related to pornography
• 25% of all search engine queries are related to pornography, or about 68 million search queries a day
• One third of porn viewers are women
• Search engines get 116,000 queries every day related to child pornography
• 34% of internet users have experienced unwanted exposure to pornographic content through ads, pop up ads, misdirected links or emails
• 2.5 billion emails sent or received every day contain porn
• Every 39 minutes a new pornography video is being created in the United States
• About 200,000 Americans are “porn addicts” ⁱIn February 2010, the number of people using a work computer to visit sexually oriented website was as high as 28%, according to research conducted by The Nielsen Company. The average visit to a pornography site from a work computer was about 13 minutes, and the average worker spent one hour and 38 minutes on such sites during that month.
  If we leverage data extracted on: March 30, 2012, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics we can use their average hourly earnings of $23.23 multiplied by 1hr.38min = a loss of ~$38/month per employee watching pornography at work. Multiplying the monthly total by 12 months shows a loss of $456 dollars each year from every employee that views pornography
  The number of U.S. employees reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as of March 30th, 2012 was 132 million. If we divide this to represent 28% of employees using a work computer to visit pornographic sites up to ~37million employees viewing pornography. (There are many ways to pare down this number, for example by excluding some labor categories, but for the sake of the exercise we’re keeping it simple).
  Thus, if 37 million employees are viewing the average amount of pornography cited by the Nielsen Company, the annual productivity loss to companies is a staggering $16.9 Billion dollars.

David Cameron’s sister-in-law has claimed that an ex-boyfriend’s father tore her clothes off on a family holiday when she was in her teens.

Emily Sheffield, the younger sister of Samantha Cameron, said the man and his friend removed her top in a swimming pool as a ‘jolly jape’ while her then-boyfriend ‘egged them on’.

Miss Sheffield, the former deputy editor of British Vogue, described sexual harassment as ‘endemic’ and called for change.

She recounted her own experience, after going on holiday with a boyfriend and his family. ‘A few days in, his father and his middle-aged friend, probably both 50, decided it would be a jolly jape to strip me in the pool. 

'The man’s wife walked inside the villa, my boyfriend egged them on from the poolside. I fled with my top removed.’

The 44-year-old also said an unnamed male boss, 25 years her senior, asked if she would ‘**** him’ during a lunch meeting. 

‘Recovering from my initial shock, I said no, naturally,’ she wrote in the London Evening Standard. ‘He countered with a long explanation of how I would be a failure in my career. Miss Sheffield, who is married to actor Tom Mullion, said another boyfriend ‘exaggerated everything we had done sexually’ to his friends after they split up.

‘None of these experiences left me hurt – mostly angry. I could continue with more tales, as could most women. The endless revelations prove that the above, and much worse, is still happening.’

However, despite detailing her own treatment, Miss Sheffield warned against ‘knee-jerk reactions’ to sex abuse claims.

‘As much as we hope some good will come of all these recent torrid retellings, there is also a danger that we are getting lost in the headlines and drama – knee-touching, bathrobes, swathes of sexual predators. It has now become a full-blown media maelstrom. 

A new class of drugs which could prevent thousands of heart attacks and deaths from cancer has been hailed as the biggest breakthrough since statins.

Scientists last night said the discovery ushered in “a new era of therapeutics” which work in an entirely different way to conventional treatment.

As well as cutting the risk of a heart attack by one quarter, the drugs halved the chances of dying from cancer and protected against gout and arthritis. Now scientists have found that reducing inflammation in the body can protect against a host of conditions - with a “really dramatic effect” on cancer deaths.

The drug canakinumab, given by injection every three months - cut repeat heart attacks by one quarter. Statins cut the risk by around 15 per cent.

Experts said the findings have “far-reaching” implications for the 200,000 people a year in Britain who suffer a heart attack. And they called for urgent trials to further examine the impact of the medication on cancer.

Professor Paul Ridker of Harvard Medical School, presenting his findings at the European Society of Cardiology congress in Barcelona yesterday, said it opens up a “third front” in the war on heart disease. The four-year study found those given the new treatment saw a 24 per cent reduction in heart attacks and 17 per cent fall in angina, while those on the highest dose saw cancer deaths fall by 51 per cent.

Speaking at the world’s biggest gathering of heart experts, Harvard scientists said the approach promises to “usher in a new era” of treatment.

Anxiety and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), are among the most frequently diagnosed of all neuropsychiatric disorders. Although many people can be treated with conventional medications, these drugs often have unwanted side-effects and may be diverted for illicit use. NEPRC scientists have made important contributions to our understanding of the biological basis and pharmacological management of anxiety and ADHD, and additional studies have provided new insights into the pathophysiology and treatment of self-injurious behavior (SIB).

Benzodiazepines are the most widely prescribed drugs for the treatment of anxiety, but their clinical effectiveness is limited by significant side-effects, including sedation, memory impairment, and dependence. NEPRC researchers have worked to develop better treatments for anxiety by helping to identify the neuropharmacological mechanisms underlying the anti-anxiety, sedating, and addictive effects of new drugs. Using a sophisticated battery of behavioral models, these studies have provided information that is crucial for developing safer and more broadly effective medications.

Using brain imaging techniques originally developed at NEPRC, our researchers have discovered elevated levels of a key component of the brain dopamine system, the dopamine transporter, in patients with ADHD. This discovery may put the medical community closer to developing more accurate diagnostic tests and better prescribing practices for the disorder. Complementary research has identified polymorphisms in the dopamine transporter gene and is investigating the effects of novel medications in subjects with different levels of behavioral activity in order to develop a more accurate understanding of the biological basis of ADHD.

This is a concept of a person who has his or her own judgement in the waking to the death that brings a sign of hate to the chosen evil that has blood on his hands and don't wish to wash it off, it all relates to a cold rush that's brakes the wind in a sudden flash that has a meaning that signs a dirty taste to there mouth that wish one from another to be silent in within the term of a white dirty lie.

if you justify a difference then there is a term of a black lie, which has a tooth or a bone that crosses its sudden wake like a river that rushes through your blood stream, The internal dirt that figures your actions to confined your wishes of hate or a witch that rides her broom stick that churns her pot of soup that boils at 12 noon that counts her kitchen killer instincts, this is a differences between what you can relate to within the given facts of life.

Nothing but a white lie they say, but does that relate to the truth when we all see a path or route to a change what can aim difference from a person who thinks of them self, to what's is best for them and nothing for no one else, what's ugly and what beautiful, what's the term of love if it don't relate to your inner self, why lie to your self if you don't see a path of your own.

The lost person is the white lie, no hope to spear or no given purpose to there meaning of what's real or fake, hold your stakes, its brakes at eight and signs at nine but everything is calculated within time, as time is a measure, as it can bring pleasure or disgusts to the one who lurks in the mist like a swamp snake with fat finger nails.

Music tells it's truth to people who owe it to them self, confined within your use of communication or information that drives a motive to be dependable, as this gives them self responsibility that would tell the different between a right dirty taste that awakes in your silent, dark, damp, deep, wet, soul like a tunnel that claws with rats that itch for juice or your poison within your inspiration that gives you the right to involve your self in an aspect you have no spoken word of truth. Which states a WHITE or BLACK LIE. They say nothing but a white lie.

Springtail fleas have pale (sometimes spotted, striped or colored) bodies that are divided into several segments measuring about 1/16th of an inch long. They have simple mouth parts which are utilized for piercing and sucking. There are eight simple eyes and four segmented antennae located in the head region.

Springtail fleas get their name owing to a special set of appendages present below the fourth abdominal segment. This appendage, called the furcula, is normally held in place by another special body part (tenaculum) present below the third abdominal segment. On releasing the furcula, the springtail fleas are capable of traveling, jumping or flying through the air nearly 100 times the length of its own body.

The hypogastrura nivicola are also famous for another special suckerlike organ present below the first abdominal segment. This body part allows adhesion, absorption of oxygen and also the ability to drink water from the soil.

Life cycle of the Collembola

Under favorable weather conditions, the hypogastrura nivicola are capable of multiplying very rapidly to the order of thousands per square foot. On drying up of the soil, they need to migrate in search of water.

Springtail fleas generally mate in the spring season and lay hundreds of eggs. They are immune to the cold and can even reproduce in temperatures as low as 40F. The springtail fleas can work their way up to the surface of the snow, earning them the name of ‘snow fleas’.

The eggs develop into nymphs which turn into adulthood in just three weeks provided the weather conditions are right. They have several predators: beetles, ants, centipedes, mites and many other insect-eaters are a threat to snow fleas.

Humans and the hypogastrura nivicola

Springtail fleas do not bite humans and are harmless to most animal groups. However, they migrate during the hot weather from the lawns into the homes. The fact that they are immune to most insecticides makes it difficult to control them.

England's filthiest restaurants should be forced by law to display hygiene ratings, inspectors say. 

Outlets in Wales have had to display food hygiene ratings since 2013, but no such law exists in England.

Inspectors say this results in premises that score lower than three out of five - meaning they must improve hygiene standards - failing to display ratings.

The British Hospitality Association (BHA) said it believed the display of hygiene notices should be voluntary.

The BBC's Inside Out team filmed a hygiene inspection in Leicester, where evidence of mouse and rat droppings, dirty dishes and floors and mouldy kitchen surfaces was uncovered. Andrew Wood, from the inspection team, said: "I find it frustrating [that ratings are not displayed].

"Members of the public are not always able to check the ratings online so in a way they are going into these places blind.

"It must also be frustrating for businesses that have achieved good ratings." 

Leicester City Council's food safety team manager, David Barclay Rhodes, said: "At the moment, I can walk along any street in England and see stickers with five, four and three ratings which mean they are satisfactory or better, but I never see the bad ones. Assistant city mayor of Leicester, Susan Waddington, said: "We feel it would be better if it were compulsory for the rating to be displayed on the window quite clearly and inside the restaurant.

"That way, customers can make a choice and the people that run the businesses have a motivation to improve where hygiene standards are not high enough."

She added: "I think owners would be motivated to push up standards. The BHA said it believed display of the ratings would soon become mandatory in England.

However, it criticised the ratings for a lack of consistency and said it would only support their mandatory display "if an effective and independent appeals process is put into place. 

This term is subjected to a meaning based on a description of a negative disapproval from a justify use of disgusting words, nasty is the term that is calculated to the way it should be addressed, its an attack from another person who has hate or disadvantage to the way in life. Expression is a use of communication that is adapted around different sources of information that would aim to help complete a given purpose to criticize the internal concept of building relations between another person who has hate to help you address information that would aim punishment.

A Strong reason to use a path to uphold a given target that is of negative impact that would affected a person life, a term of death to the soul of one that has the vision to conclude further to be blamed through life that sees a person turn to the dark side of life.

No hope or a dead end that fogs the dark mist with a cold draft that brakes like ice on a frozen lake that swamp's the muck of dirt and grim green slime, no vision but a dark door that can't open with damp that claws the internal frame of the inside that eats like cockroaches through your guts.

Enter the house of lost trust that hears a silent voice that awakes your internal soul like a cry from a child that's lost in the trace of the forgotten in a planet that surrounds million of despaired for the open soul that one has to uphold.

Three knocks on the door and it cracks like shattered glass, an awaken mind that transforms from internal brain functions to a skull of death that has cross bones attached with fire and fly's spraying out of its mouth like a mist of green spiritual cloud, tracks the one who condemns death to the soul who forgives the danger of the dark night that is trapped in a cave of skulls that brakes a sad cry from the internal soul that rages with fire. (Condemn)