WASHINGTON—Coming underneath hearth for its unethical use of African Individuals as check topics, the U.S. authorities has confronted criticism after revelations emerged this week concerning its decades-long Whoopee Cushion Challenge, which examined new pranks on Black individuals. “Starting within the Thirties, federal authorities sanctioned a clandestine experiment to humiliate Black women and men by secretly putting whoopee cushions on their chairs, inviting them to sit down down, after which, whereas feigning disgust, asking them if that they had simply farted,” stated Rachel Wallace, a historical past professor at Georgetown College, explaining that the almost 40-year challenge additionally concerned flooding the African American neighborhood with faux gum wrappers that delivered an electrical shock to individuals once they tried to take a bit, in addition to canisters labeled “peanut brittle” that contained one thing very completely different. “These cans, when opened, launched spring-loaded snakes into their unwitting victims’ faces—100% of whom have been Black, and none of whom had supplied their knowledgeable consent to the federal government’s researchers. We now know the FBI went as far as to deploy experimental pranks in opposition to the Black Panthers, as soon as sending the revolutionary Fred Hampton a paper bag filled with canine poop that had been set on hearth, in order that when he stomped it out, he acquired the poop throughout his boot. The indignity these individuals have been subjected to for the sake of ‘innovation’ in practical-joke science is completely horrific and amoral.” At press time, Wallace was reportedly eating in a D.C. restaurant when federal brokers—seated close by and utilizing a telescopic prank fork prolonged to its full 25-inch size—swiped a rib-eye steak proper off her plate.