In the mid 1770s, a group of English physicians conducted experiments to investigate the limits of human survival in extreme temperatures. They took turns exposing themselves to temperatures as high as 260F/127C in specially heated rooms. Through their research, they were able to demonstrate the connection between perspiration and the body‘s ability to regulate heat.
Triplets were deliberately separated at birth….
Triplets were deliberately separated at birth by their adoption agency. After investigative journalist, Lawrence Wright, looked into the matter, it was revealed the triplets were part of a scientific experiment by Dr. Peter B. Neubauer.
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There was an experiment where three…
There was an experiment where three people, who each believed they were Jesus Christ, were made roommates at a psychiatric ward. At first, they argued over who was holiest and even fistfought. Eventually, each patient wrote the other two off as being crazy.
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There was an experiment where three…
There was an experiment where three people, who each believed they were Jesus Christ, were made roommates at a psychiatric ward. At first, they argued over who was holiest and even fistfought. Eventually, each patient wrote the other two off as being crazy.
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Quaker Oats fed radioactive…
Quaker Oats fed radioactive milk and oatmeal to unsuspecting special needs kids under the guise of a science club in order to find out how beneficial certain nutrients were in their oats.
In the 50’s NASA recruited…
In the 50’s NASA recruited deaf people to research why they didn’t get motion sickness. Tests included flights in ‘Vomit Comet’ and sailing in the rough seas (researchers got violently sick, while deaf people just played cards happily).
From 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted….
From 1953 to 1964, the CIA conducted completely uncontrolled tests involving drugging people who didn’t know they were being drugged, then following and watching them without intervening.
Winthrop Niles Kellogg attempted…
Winthrop Niles Kellogg attempted to “humanize” a baby chimpanzee by raising it alongside his infant son. The experiment had to be halted when, instead of humanizing the chimp, the young boy became more chimp-like. 10
American neurologist Walter Freeman…
American neurologist Walter Freeman drove around the US performing ice pick lobotomies in a van he coined the lobotomobile. 00
Issac Newton stuck a sewing needle under…
Issac Newton stuck a sewing needle under his eyeball, pushed it all the way to the back of his eye socket, and wiggled it around to test his theory of optics. 00