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10 Bizarre Experiments

Editor: euphoria / September 25, 2009 / Category : Science

Scientists around the world are known for being geniuses, but sometimes they can walk the fine line of insanity. Why they conduct some of the bizarre experiments they do, one will never know, but the learning that comes from these experiments will never be forgotten.

1.
The Masked Tickler

This experiment was the brain child of Professor Clarence Leuba. He wanted to know of laughter was a learned response to being tickled or an inborn response. He had two children and convinced his wife that she was not allowed to laugh during tickling to see what happened. During the experiments on the newborns, he would wear a mask that had blank stares. What he discovered was by month seven of the newborns lives they were over come with laughter when they were being tickled. So, the conclusion to his experiments was that laughter is indeed an inborn trait when it comes to the realms of tickling.

the masked tickler

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2.
Reversing Death

While conducting research at Berkley, Robert E. Cornish believed he had discovered a way to restore life into something that had been dead for ten minutes, just as long as there was no vital organ damage. He began conducting his experiments on dogs at the college. Once the college was alerted to it, he was banned. He continued his work at home, where he failed the first two times, but succeeded the last two times. He wanted to conduct it on an actual human and found a death row inmate who wanted to volunteer for it. The state denied his request to perform this experiment. So, whether this could have been one of the greatest discoveries known to man we will never know.

reversing death

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3.
Slumber Learning

Professor Lawrence LeShan wanted to know if a person is able to learn while they are asleep. He conducted an experiment on a group of constant nail biters. Using a phonograph the phrase “My nails taste terrible bitter,” was repeated 300 times during the course of a night. Seven weeks into the experiment the phonograph broke, so he began standing in the room and repeating the phrase. After several weeks forty percent of the nail biters had stopped biting their nails. He concluded that it is possible to learn while you are sleeping.

slumber learning

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4.
The Doctor Who Drank Vomit

Doctor Stubbins Ffirth had made the observation that yellow fever was only rapid during the summer months and lay dormant during the winter months. So, he claimed that it was not a contagious disease and wanted to prove his point. He began his experiments by making small incisions in his skin and pouring the vomit from yellow fever patients into them. He remained healthy. He made deeper incisions and continued to pour the freshly obtained vomit into them, still remaining healthy. He poured it in his eyes, made a vomit sauna and only experienced some head pain, nausea, and perspiration, but was still healthy.

For his final experiments, he began ingesting the vomit. He made pills from fresh specimens and even mixed some with water and drank it down. He stayed healthy and concluded that it was not a contagious disease. As a society we all know that yellow fever has to be directly transmitted into a blood stream by a mosquito in order from the person to be infected.

the doctor who drunk vomit

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5.
Elephants on Acid

Researchers Louis Jolyon West, Chester M. Pierce, and warren Thomas wanted to know what would happen to an elephant that was on acid. They shot a cartridge-syringe of 297 milligrams, 3000 times more than any human would take, of the stuff into the hind quarters of an elephant and proceeded to record the event.

They claimed that the experiment was being conducted to find out whether the drug would induce aggressiveness that male elephants where they will secrete a sticky type of fluid from their temporal glands. This elephant acted like he was shot by a gun and died. He walked around his pen a few times wailing. The researchers tried their best to revive him using anti-psychotic drugs, but to no avail. When they went public and faced scrutiny they claimed that the elephant must have been sensitive to the drug.

elephants on acid

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  • Debbie
    I have an uncle who was a professor of psychology at a community college in Minnesota. He told me of an experiment a collegue of his conducted on catatonic patients. He placed them randomly around a baseball field and hit line drives at them to see if they would move out of the way to avoid being hit. Surprisingly quite a few of the patients did move out of the way, but in no way did they come out of their catatonic state. I believe he wanted to see how much of the real environment the patients were aware of. Personally I think he could have achieved the same result by putting food in front of the patients to see if they would eat.
  • Deff
    Reversal Death is same as the H.P.Lovecraft's ''Reanimator''
  • Anon
    The uhhh, nail biting experiment failed....
  • Rox
    The animal experiments with the elephant and the dog are just plain cruel! So inhumane!
    I'm glad the researcher and the surgeon are dead!
  • Bookkeep
    297 milligrams of LSD is nowhere NEAR 3000 times the amount a human would take. Intrepid psychonauts will relatively often take themselves to a milligram (I've personally done 1.2 milligrams), and there are reports of people taking as much as ten milligrams. Your "3000 times" number is off by at least an order of magnitude.
  • Useful blog post definitely a good contribution to the web.
  • Lolz_Me
    man, that "learning while asleep" thing could be great!!! but it would encourage laziness unless the technology is restricted, lolz
  • euphoria
    That is so true! :)
  • Sue
    Speaking of Tickling. Did you know there is a houseplant that MOVES when you Tickle It? The leaves instantly close and even the branches droop. It was the best gift I ever received and I had so much fun growing it.
  • mike
    i picked up that book and absolutely loved it !
  • acidhead
    As far as i know the elephant did die of respiratory depression, as elephants are way more sensitive to lsd than humans. by the way: humans are way more sensitive than e.g. mice - so the bigger the mammal, the less lsd per kilogramm bodyweight will kill.
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