MoH 20 Bizarre Experiments is a Yahoo Pick!
Posted: 15 November 2007 02:29 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Yay!

I have an RSS feed through Yahoo mail for Yahoo Picks.  On checking up today, I discovered that the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time made the pick for 14 November 2007.

November 14, 2007
The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time
They’re not kidding. The experiments detailed here are really and truly bizarre. The faint of heart may want to drift off to less peculiar realms. But those interested in traversing the wild side of science should step right up. In this list from The Museum of Hoaxes, drugged elephants are on parade, bulls are manipulated by remote control, and more than one housewife unintentionally subjects herself to “beneficial brainwashing”: “People like you and need you. You have confidence in yourself.” Such notorious psychological trials as the Stanford Prison Experiment and Stanley Milgram’s tests of the limits of human obedience both surface. (The limits rarely come.) And a duo representing the Cold War’s little-known “surgical arms race” makes the top 20. The Russians produced two-headed dogs, the Americans retaliated by transplanting a monkey’s head, and Dr. Frankenstein felt right at home.

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Posted: 15 November 2007 08:55 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Very cool!

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Posted: 16 November 2007 12:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Cool. Thanks for pointing it out. I’ve been preparing a follow-up list which shouldn’t be quite as gruesome, and more fitting with the theme of the site: the top 10 most unusual deceptive experiments. I’ll probably post it online sometime after Thanksgiving.

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Posted: 16 November 2007 04:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I’m holding out for the loonies.  I need some entertainment right now.

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Posted: 18 November 2007 07:51 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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I’m with you gray.

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Posted: 18 November 2007 02:39 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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gray - 16 November 2007 09:08 AM

I’m holding out for the loonies.

You called?  cheese

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Posted: 18 November 2007 03:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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Accipiter - 18 November 2007 07:39 PM
gray - 16 November 2007 09:08 AM

I’m holding out for the loonies.

You called?  cheese

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Posted: 18 November 2007 07:02 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]
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I’m not listening.  la la la la….....    shut eye

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