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Scientists get up to all sorts of nonsense if we let them, which is why the rogue inventor Emmett Brown was rightly locked up. Just take a look at the following ventures, which range from useless to unethical to downright evil.
1. The Erection Lecture
Pre-Viagra, Giles Brindley created a drug to induce erections, and he introduced it to the world at a live seminar. After first showing the audience surprise images of his penis, he dropped his pants to show them the drug's results. He then walked up to people, asking them to "confirm the degree of tumescence." Their screams of horror surprised him.
2. Stuttering Orphans
Believing stuttering was purely psychological, Wendell Johnson tried to get stuttering children to stop. He failed at this, but he succeeded at the second half of his study -- bullying orphans who didn't stutter, to induce stuttering. They stuttered for the rest of their lives, never knowing they'd been in an experiment.
4. Bat Fellatio
Not only did Chinese scientists spend hours in 2009 observing bat sex, but they specifically noted oral sex and whether oral sex prolonged the overall length of the sex act. Before this, the only animals known for oral sex were humans and bonobos.
3. Seeing Upside Down
Because of how the eye works, an inverted image lands on the retina, and yet we perceive the world the right way up. Curious about the brain's adaptability, George Stratton created glasses that projected an upside-down image into his eye. He lived like this for eight days and claimed that his brain interpreted even this new image as right side up by the end.
5. Testicle Weights
Sometimes, stimulating one part of the body causes pain in another. Two scientists, Edward Carmichael and Herbert Woollard, decided to study this by lying down, placing weights on their balls, and recording how painful this was. The answer: Very painful.
6. Bridge Sex
7. Nude LSD Treatment
Today, researchers are looking into the positive effects of psychotropic substances. Dr. Elliot Barker was ahead of his time, giving LSD to those diagnosed as criminal psychopaths ... and making them trip for 11 days at a time, naked, feeding through a straw inserted through their cell's wall. The patients ended up worse than they started.
8. Masturbation Quiz
MIT had volunteers masturbate with one hand and then answer quiz questions with the other, with questions appearing when a thermometer detected they were most aroused. The questions mostly concerned their openness to taboo sex acts, which apparently rose with arousal.
9. Hydrogen Enema
In 1886, to test the secureness of intestinal stitching, Nicholas Senn inserted a balloon into his own anus then inflated it with 15 liters of hydrogen. This is especially concerning when you learn that this experiment's prior subjects were dogs, and they exploded.
10. Eating Prison Shit
In the 1910s, South Carolina tasked Joseph Goldberger with discovering why prisoners kept getting sick. Goldberger figured the best way was to eat the prisoners' shit -- and their pee, snot, and scabs. His wife joined in; they called these meals their "filth parties."
11. The Rosenhan Experiment
In 1969, a Stanford psychologist and eight subjects faked psychiatric symptoms to get committed. The goal was to debunk the criteria for admitting people as insane. Once committed, the subjects struggled to get out, some taking weeks to prove they were sane after all.
12. Bedbug Food
Every Saturday for 11 years, Regine Gries placed bedbugs on her skin to test how much they liked biting her. This added up to over 200,000 bites. The original plan was to use chickens or pigs as test subjects, but the bugs didn't like those.
13. Hungry and Horny
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