| − | The view that human beings are '''just another species''' is common among Western academics. | + | The view that human beings are '''just another species''' is common among Western academics. While it would be inappropriate to treat humans as fundamentally different from other animals in the context of scientific research, scientists often court controversy by extending this equivalence too far, into the realm of morality and philosophy. An example of this phenomenon is the [[Tuskeegee Experiment]], where scientists treated a group of African-American subjects like experimental lab animals and infected them with syphilis in order to study the effects of the disease, even years after a cure for the disease was found. |