Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments (not for the faint of heart)

[1969912 0]

I have only read down to #5. So far, #3 and #5 are the gnarliest, perhaps because there is video.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/experiments/P0

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"Soviet physician Sergei Brukhonenko developed a primitive heart-lung machine he called an "autojector," and with this device he succeeded in keeping the severed head of a dog alive. He displayed one of his living dog heads in 1928 before an international audience of scientists at the Third Congress of Physiologists of the USSR. To prove that the head lying on the table really was alive, he showed that it reacted to stimuli. Brukhonenko banged a hammer on the table, and the head flinched. He shone light in its eyes, and the eyes blinked. He even fed the head a piece of cheese, which promptly popped out the esophageal tube on the other end."

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thats frickin incredible.. the dog head that is.. where can i get one?

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[1969912 0]

Don't read #9 while eating.

"To prove his theory, Ffirth set out to demonstrate that no matter how much he exposed himself to yellow fever, he wouldn't catch it. He started by making small incisions on his arms and pouring "fresh black vomit" obtained from a yellow-fever patient into the cuts. He didn't get sick.

Next he dribbled some vomit in his eyes. He fried some up on a skillet and inhaled the fumes. He fashioned some into a pill and swallowed it. Finally he took to drinking entire glasses of pure, undiluted black vomit. And still he didn't get sick."

"Once we got to the point where twenty/something's needed a place on the corner that changed the oil in their cars we were doomed . . ."
-NickDG

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#9: The Vomit-Drinking Doctor
How far would you go to prove a theory? Stubbins Ffirth, a doctor-in-training living in Philadelphia during the early nineteenth century, went further than most. Way further.

Having observed that yellow fever ran riot during the summer, but disappeared during the winter, Ffirth concluded that it was not a contagious disease. Instead, he theorized it was caused by an excess of stimulants such as heat, food, and noise.

To prove his theory, Ffirth set out to demonstrate that no matter how much he exposed himself to yellow fever, he wouldn't catch it. He started by making small incisions on his arms and pouring "fresh black vomit" obtained from a yellow-fever patient into the cuts. He didn't get sick.

Next he dribbled some vomit in his eyes. He fried some up on a skillet and inhaled the fumes. He fashioned some into a pill and swallowed it. Finally he took to drinking entire glasses of pure, undiluted black vomit. And still he didn't get sick.

Ffirth rounded out his experiment by liberally smearing himself with other yellow-fever tainted fluids: blood, saliva, perspiration, and urine. Healthy as ever, he declared his theory proven. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Yellow fever is very contagious, but it requires direct transmission into the blood stream, usually by a mosquito, to cause infection. But considering all Ffirth did to infect himself, it is a bit of a miracle he remained alive.

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about as stupid as I have ever seen. The dogs head is a hoot. heart pumping outside the body. If you pump blood THROUGH a heart - it can look like it is beating.

and the same for lungs, pump air into them and they look like they are breathing.


the dog is licking his chops, get real, that means he is also swallowing - to where?

They go through great lengths to show his face, why not show all the connections to his severed head and neck?

if they could do that in 1928 or 1950 or whatever, then we would be that much further on the same experiments today - gurs that is why they call it a hoax website..

[The_Don 0]

I find it VERY strange that no one has an opinion on #2.

I guess things like human nature don't change.

Sad & Disturbing.

But true....

I am NOT being loud.
I'm being enthusiastic!

[Remster 30]

Actually, Milgram's experiment is very disturbing. Subject were actually crying, but still obeyed the authority figure.

Remster

[The_Don 0]

That's my point.

I am NOT being loud.
I'm being enthusiastic!

[wmw999 2,457]

#2 and #7 both have a lot to say about what normally nice people are capable of.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[Remster 30]

There's a lot of data out there on good people turning evil. http://www.lucifereffect.com/ by Zimbardo (the Stanford Experiement guy) is a good start if you are interested.

Remster

[The_Don 0]

Thanks for the link.

I'll read more later.

Just more proof that humans can be worse than animals.

Blame it our big brains?

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I'm being enthusiastic!

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about as stupid as I have ever seen....if they could do that in 1928 or 1950 or whatever, then we would be that much further on the same experiments today - gurs that is why they call it a hoax website..

Dr. Frankenstein was waaaaay ahead of his time and you see where it got him, donchya?

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I have only read down to #5. So far, #3 and #5 are the gnarliest, perhaps because there is video.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/experiments/P0

EDIT to add quote:

"Soviet physician Sergei Brukhonenko developed a primitive heart-lung machine he called an "autojector," and with this device he succeeded in keeping the severed head of a dog alive. He displayed one of his living dog heads in 1928 before an international audience of scientists at the Third Congress of Physiologists of the USSR. To prove that the head lying on the table really was alive, he showed that it reacted to stimuli. Brukhonenko banged a hammer on the table, and the head flinched. He shone light in its eyes, and the eyes blinked. He even fed the head a piece of cheese, which promptly popped out the esophageal tube on the other end."

that's messed up... I LOVE IT!!!!!!

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[The_Don 0]

Didn't see that on the video.

Think about it.

I am NOT being loud.
I'm being enthusiastic!