It's a good text, but I have one objection.
Why could never happen today, @lifenbeauty? Strict ethical codes and institutional review?
Do you know what has happened in Abu Graib? Do you know what is happening today in Guantanamo? Do you know that many torture victims were confirmed as innocent of any crime? Do you know that CIA holds secret prisons all over the world? And that psychologists are developing much worse experiments compared to your two.
The authorized "enhanced interrogation" (the originator of this term is unknown) was based on work done by James Elmer Mitchell and Bruce Jessen in the Air Force's Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) program. The CIA contracted with the two psychologists to develop alternative, harsh interrogation techniques.
Your objection is in place, @lighteye!
I didn't mention in my article that I've included only "official" experiments and that, when stating "something like that could never happen today", I was referring to "officially" happen.
The war experiments were and are most certainly far crueler than the official ones, such as the three I've described.
Cheers! : )