Ethic free science

[Blindswordmaster]

First off, please don't ban me. What experiments would you carry out in the name of science if you had no ethical limitations? Personally, I wonder what would happen if you removed some skull and dripped LSD directly onto the human brain. If you find this thread offensive, feel free to send me a personal message. Remember: This isn't about torture or sadism, it's about no holds barred science!

 

[Kollega]

No-holds barred science is just a "do whatever you want" card for whackjobs like Mengele. This will not go over well, i promise.

But - assuming i had the technology - i'd try one of the following mad science-y things:

* Build a Doom-Laser, get it into space, then draw my portrait on the Moon.
* Genetically engineer and then clone some new species, like a dragon or a Lombax.
* As a possibility: bionically enhance my own body so i'm able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and don't forget stuff anymore.

That's all illegal, amrite?

 

[cynikles]

Well, there's a few. But they end up being incredibly cruel. There's a 'forbidden experiment' in the linguistics realm that would involve isolating a baby in its developmental stages and seeing whether or not they develop language all on its own. The going theory is that people acquire language through social interaction coupled with an innate ability to produce language. However, it's hard to make it fact without carrying out the 'forbidden experiment.' I'd be incredibly fascinated to see the results, but I couldn't do that to a child.

 

[Blindswordmaster]

No-holds barred science is just a "do whatever you want" card for whackjobs like Mengele. This will not go over well, i promise.

But - assuming i had the technology - i'd try one of the following mad science-y things:

* Build a Doom-Laser, get it into space, then draw my portrait on the Moon.
* Genetically engineer and then clone some new species, like a dragon or a Lombax.
* As a possibility: bionically enhance my own body so i'm able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and don't forget stuff anymore.

That's all illegal, amrite?

I don't believe that any of those things are actually illegal. I mean, once you did it, they would make it illegal, but I don' believe there are actually any laws prohibiting any of that. Except for the first one. I'm fairly sure that's some form of vandalism.

 

[Infinatex]

Well, there's a few. But they end up being incredibly cruel. There's a 'forbidden experiment' in the linguistics realm that would involve isolating a baby in its developmental stages and seeing whether or not they develop language all on its own. The going theory is that people acquire language through social interaction coupled with an innate ability to produce language. However, it's hard to make it fact without carrying out the 'forbidden experiment.' I'd be incredibly fascinated to see the results, but I couldn't do that to a child.

It could be worse, you could teach them a completely made up language and then release them into the world. Wait, that will be m experiment!

 

[Blindswordmaster]

Well, there's a few. But they end up being incredibly cruel. There's a 'forbidden experiment' in the linguistics realm that would involve isolating a baby in its developmental stages and seeing whether or not they develop language all on its own. The going theory is that people acquire language through social interaction coupled with an innate ability to produce language. However, it's hard to make it fact without carrying out the 'forbidden experiment.' I'd be incredibly fascinated to see the results, but I couldn't do that to a child.

They've already done that. A priest isolated several children and ensured they heard no speech for years. He thought that they would reveal the language of god. They didn't talk. Ever.

 

[Sougo]

I would establish a board to regulate unethical experiments "in the name of science."

Yeah, that basically means theres nothing I really want to try out.

 

[Blueruler182]

What would I do? Well, starting with realism, stem cells and cloning research. Those seem like the important ones.

If we move onto the improbable I'd say researching telepathy. I believe the greater mysteries of life would be ascertainable if you could get first-hand views of the world from hundreds of viewpoints. I hear (from House) that there is minor telepathic-esque devices in development, but I'd go all out for this. Seeing every possible angle on the world, basically living hundreds of lives, living on hundreds of worlds just as alien as the last but still technically the same earth as your own, seeing every possibility and every thought process. You'd see every angle, every possible thought on a situation, everything that it is to be human. The moral questions come in for privacy and control reasons.

And the shits and giggles response is giving different fuzzy forest critter breast implants.

 

[Sjakie]

I'm a bit of a fan of Bio-enginering.
If no Ethics where involved we would have a whole lot of new drugs/medicine allready. Not to mention genetic enhancements, life prolonging techniques, etc.
I would stop animal testing and start testing on humans right away for whatever i can think of since it would have faster results.
My pet project would be gene-enhancement and modification....i'll need a 100.000 volunteers for a start, anyone?

P.S I am actually for animal testing when it comes to medicine testing (cosmetics can go screw themselves)

 

[Om Nom Nom]

Creating new lifeforms sounds fun. What other elements can serve as a base material, I wonder!? Hhhmmmmmmmm.

Oh, and trying to create a genetic counter to ageing would be the key to ridiculous sums of money. I doubt it would be hard to find willing test subjects; terminally ill people, the elderly (that haven't lost their marbles... those ones would be a pain) and suicidal.

 

[Zyst]

Well, there's a few. But they end up being incredibly cruel. There's a 'forbidden experiment' in the linguistics realm that would involve isolating a baby in its developmental stages and seeing whether or not they develop language all on its own. The going theory is that people acquire language through social interaction coupled with an innate ability to produce language. However, it's hard to make it fact without carrying out the 'forbidden experiment.' I'd be incredibly fascinated to see the results, but I couldn't do that to a child.

They've already done that. A priest isolated several children and ensured they heard no speech for years. He thought that they would reveal the language of god. They didn't talk. Ever.

Source? I'm calling shenanigans otherwise.

Also, I would splice several species together, attempting to make an "ultimate creature".

 

[yanipheonu]

Human Instrumentality Project.

Yes, I'd be Gendo Ikari.


... In all honesty, I'd look into some way to link minds together in hope to create some sort of harmony. Obviously probably won't work well though XD

 

[crimsonshrouds]

hmmm science without ethics... im getting a rapture vibe from the question. Anyone else remember the recording from bioshock 1, of the guy who kept performing surgery even after the nurse started yelling for help?

well i want to make a living chimera.

 

[Ham_authority95]

I would splice the genes of choice Japanese girls to create a real-life Haruhi.

...What?

 

[Chris Binkley]

All manner of things to children. To Clarify very quickly I mean to learn how we are at the core. One sch idea, raise a child in a controlled environment where no one ever stands up but always crawls around on all fours and everything is with in the babies reach. Just to see if standing is completely natural or a learned behavior. I think it's natural but no one has ever been able to prove it. I've got another one in which I try and see if people can learn to communicate through music alone.

 

[tombman888]

Ninja'd by first poster. i would like to genetically engineer a new species, preferably dragons.

 

[Holyeskimo]

No-holds barred science is just a "do whatever you want" card for whackjobs like Mengele. This will not go over well, i promise.

But - assuming i had the technology - i'd try one of the following mad science-y things:

* Build a Doom-Laser, get it into space, then draw my portrait on the Moon.
* Genetically engineer and then clone some new species, like a dragon or a Lombax.
* As a possibility: bionically enhance my own body so i'm able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and don't forget stuff anymore.

That's all illegal, amrite?

I don't believe that any of those things are actually illegal. I mean, once you did it, they would make it illegal, but I don' believe there are actually any laws prohibiting any of that. Except for the first one. I'm fairly sure that's some form of vandalism.

but who owns the moon?
i would go with bringing the dinosaurs back to life, and then making bio-engineered human dino's, and cyborg dinosaurs that would be used as super weapons.
ah a t-rex with gatling guns.

 

[Chris Binkley]

Well, there's a few. But they end up being incredibly cruel. There's a 'forbidden experiment' in the linguistics realm that would involve isolating a baby in its developmental stages and seeing whether or not they develop language all on its own. The going theory is that people acquire language through social interaction coupled with an innate ability to produce language. However, it's hard to make it fact without carrying out the 'forbidden experiment.' I'd be incredibly fascinated to see the results, but I couldn't do that to a child.

Actually you're remembering that wrong, it wasn't a priest it was some king who was into that sort of thing. All the children died except a few who spoke what ever language the nurses spoke because they'd broken the rules. I'll edit this once I find the source hang on a bit.

They've already done that. A priest isolated several children and ensured they heard no speech for years. He thought that they would reveal the language of god. They didn't talk. Ever.

Source? I'm calling shenanigans otherwise.

Also, I would splice several species together, attempting to make an "ultimate creature".

Odd my stuff didn't post here. Anyway, yeah I remember something about that experiment but I thought it was a king who funded it or something? I'm looking into it and will post it if I can find it. Also from what I remember all the kids died before they were a year old expect a few who started speaking what ever language the nurses spoke.

 

[Luke5515]

I would experiment in mixing DNA and trying to manipulate it. Not like, blond hair, blue eyes. More like, blond hair, big ass wings, spits poison.