Human experimentation—using Earth's terms, that was testing on the human body.
Though media people, most of them from liberal arts backgrounds, wanted nothing more than to slap the label of evil onto any human experiment, Wang Qi knew that most such experiments were actually humane and ethical, especially those conducted for academic purposes.
There was no other reason than ensuring the experimental results were accurate and valid. The most important principles in human experimentation, "informed" and "voluntary," served the same purpose. The principle of "informed" meant that subjects understood the experiment's purpose and dangers, eliminating bias caused by the placebo effect; while "voluntary," meaning freely agreeing to participate of one's own will, kept participants mentally stable and eliminated other interference.
This was not merely about protecting the subjects' human rights. It also lowered the cost of the experiment itself and yielded more valid data. If an institution violated such experimental ethics in conducting human experiments, then it had to be a profit-seeking organization such as a corporation, neglecting the research value of the data in order to obtain it at lower cost—after all, they only needed to know whether their product would make people sick or kill them.
The Immortal Dao of the modern age was a scientific community, and the Immortal Alliance was a purely research-oriented institution. Within the Immortal Alliance, the quickest path to status was producing theories, and human experiments likewise tended toward academic purposes. Therefore, Wang Qi was not overly worried about dying in some muddleheaded fashion. Rather than shrinking back, he asked, "What kinds of human experiments are we talking about?"
If it was an experiment in pathology or toxicology, Wang Qi could not participate at all. On the day he entered the Immortal Academy, he had been inoculated with the Thousand Plagues and Myriad