Proof of Concept (Part I)

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Proof of Concept (Part I)

Dreams come in many different forms. We dream of achieving goals in our lives and having sweet dreams as we sleep at night. Some people dream of bringing about significant change for the world, something that will have a positive effect on millions of people. Not necessarily for fame and fortune, but with good intentions.

At least in the beginning. The desire to create change to affect the world often sparks from the very problem or illness we suffer ourselves.

Engineers, inventors, and scientists develop the next never-before-seen whirly-gig that improves the world, born from a need within themselves for a remedy. Some inventions and change come quick, even proof of concept is small because the resulting proof is inarguable.

For instance, once the Wright Brothers finally made a flying prototype that actually lifted was one proof of concept in 1903, the second came in 1905 when they were able to prove the airplane was actually useful by showing that it could do more than fly in a straight line, but could be kept in the air for extended time and maneuvered turn where they wanted. lying up to 24.5 miles.

Science takes proof of concept seriously because the invention or remedy can change the world. What the Wright brothers did with planes, the Montgolfier brothers from France did when inventing the hot air balloon about 125 years earlier, with the idea of people traveling in the sky. They did not send people up in their hot air balloon first, but animals. A duck, a rooster, and a lamb were sent up in a crate to ensure they could survive the altitude and breathe the air before thinking about allowing humans to try it.

Proof of concept is ethical, or rather the intention is ethical. What if, however, the perspective of ethics is warped? We know of human trials where volunteers are paid to submit their bodies to testing and studies that will help scientists with proof of concept. They knowingly sign releases, authorizations, and non-disclosure agreements, for the protection of themselves and those doing the tests. History has revealed that this has not always been the case. That in the past when certain people were not seen as valuable to society, or equivalent to a certain standard of humanity, those groups were not offered fair disclosure about their participation in tests, but lied to or taken advantage. You are probably at least a little familiar with a few that listed below from the internet:

Five Historical Cases of Unethical Human Testing Without Consent

Here are five well-documented instances where humans were subjected to harmful or inhumane experiments without their knowledge or informed consent:

1. Nazi Medical Experiments (1940s)
During World War II, Nazi doctors conducted horrific experiments on concentration camp prisoners, including Jews, Romani, Poles, Soviet POWs, homosexuals, and disabled individuals. These included freezing people alive, infecting them with diseases like malaria and typhus, performing surgeries without anesthesia, and testing weapons-related procedures. Subjects had no choice in participation and were often killed Wikipedia+1.

2. Unit 731 (Imperial Japan, 1936–1945)
A covert Japanese Army unit in Manchuria subjected thousands of prisoners—mostly Chinese, but also Koreans and Mongolians—to brutal biological and chemical warfare tests. Victims were vivisected, deliberately infected with plague and cholera, and exposed to extreme cold. Pregnant women were impregnated and subjected to trauma experiments, with fetuses studied through vivisection biologyinsights.com+1.

3. Tuskegee Syphilis Study (USA, 1932–1972)
The U.S. Public Health Service deceived 600 impoverished African American men in Macon County, Alabama, about their syphilis diagnosis. They were not told they had the disease and were denied effective treatment, even after penicillin became available in 1947. This led to severe illness, death, and congenital syphilis in their children biologyinsights.com+1.

4. Guatemala Syphilis Experiments (1946–1948)
U.S. researchers infected over 1,300 Guatemalans—prisoners, soldiers, mental patients, and sex workers—with syphilis and other STIs without consent. Some were injected with bacteria or exposed through sexual contact with infected prostitutes. The study was hidden from participants and their families www.historyoasis.com.

5. Project MKUltra (USA, 1953–1973)
An illegal CIA program tested mind-control techniques on unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens. Subjects were dosed with LSD, exposed to hypnosis, and placed in controlled environments to study psychological effects. Many were unaware of the experiments, and some were subjected to extreme conditions www.historyoasis.com.

These cases highlight the dangers of unethical research and led to the creation of ethical guidelines such as the Nuremberg Code and the Declaration of Helsinki to protect human subjects.

These days we know what happened to these groups of people was wrong and inhuman, and that the basic human rights they are born with were disregarded. They were violated. These people suffered because their usage in proof of concept was more important in the view of science or the people in power – because of who they were. They were collateral damage for a higher perceived good of people who mattered more.

Did these people have hopes and dreams like any other human being? Absolutely. But in their era, the needs and beliefs of the majority outweighed the rights and freedoms of the minorities. They were treated like cattle. And most people have sympathy even for a cow. When empathy for another human let alone an animal is absent, we have obviously entered dangerous waters.

Now, what if I suggested that you are participating in an experiment such as these right now? What if you discovered that your body and mind are being violated every day? That your free will is being tested and manipulated every single day when you open your phone. Well, every time you grant access to yourself without question you are relinquishing your free will and autonomy and human rights.

Do you know that it took ten years for the birth control pill to get approved by the FDA. As far as we know nobody was using it before the FDA approved its usage to stop pregnancy. However, millions of people complied and relinquished their human rights and protections during the pandemic of 2021 without question. Those who questioned the untested, non-FDA-approved vaccine were punished by employers, by the government, and by society. Even pregnant women suffered this enforced compliance without proof of concept for how an unborn child would be affected, let alone the mother.

Is that humanity? Does the mass panic of the world populace outweigh the rights of people who rightfully question what is injected into their body? In the state of not fully understanding what is being faced, the price we pay to keep our social acceptance and livelihood can be our lives. Taken over any number of lines without thoughtful personal examination, we voluntarily put ourselves at risk.

Your free will was also tested. Most people were happily compliant, eager to feel safe by taking an injection that could not promise to prevent illness. Others were fearfully compliant. The side effects of the vaccinations to the young men and the elderly seemed alarming but were easily glossed over by leadership, head scientists, and most media channels as anomalies. Doctors who dared to speak out lost their jobs and credibility.

In our advanced digital age, you are being scanned for physiological responses to input received from what you see on social media, through advertising, and videos you watch. Your habits, responses, vital signs, and bodily functions are tracked and stored in data centers for later analysis. Qualified and quantified for later use for proof of concept.

Our young people have become so normalized to this as being a simple fact of life that they will basically give themselves away to corporations for the sake of downloading an app that invades every orifice of privacy they have but don’t understand the importance of. Forget selling your soul to Satan, we give it away for free every time we impatiently comply our way through their gates to get what we want, right now.

Sadly, we are nearly forced into relinquishing our autonomy if we want to prove ourselves, our identity, or have access to things that often are only available online. For instance, things are changing at the social security office, where the employees have been told they cannot give assistance to seniors coming into their facility for certain things that used to be common. Such as signing up for social security benefits. You must go online, or call a representative by phone. That is one tiny example of not being able to get help unless you relinquish yourself to the digital world. Human interface is on a downward slide. I have much more to share about this topic, and will do so in the next article. Because if we don’t wake up to what is happening with this cyberworld, we run the risk of becoming what the long cold finger of history that points at in the future. That is if we can think clearly as a species, by our own autonomy by then.

Thank you for reading,

Anne