These are Josef Mengele stuff that made me feel sick.
Horrified. Along with the poor monkey who’s head was reattached to another
body. Thank God it died shortly after. How awful to survive that. Also, there
are many different experiments people did through the history. While
researching “mad scientist’s” lab it made me think of people who did this. What
was it, a pure scientific curiosity or something else? Some of the experiments
I can comprehend and somehow justify. If an experiment on poor dog will help in
saving many people I will support, but some of the experiments makes you
wonder. Why the hell would someone do this?
These are just the experiments we know about. Who knows what
other Nazi torture stuff has been done. Car companies used to use dogs and pigs
as crash test dummies until PETA got involved and petitioned. Can you imagine
how many experiments there were done which never reached the scientific fame.
1. Dr. Minovici’s Hanging Experiments
During the first decade of the twentieth century, and these
were the times of researches, while employed as a professor of forensic science
at the State School of Science in Bucharest, Nicolae Minovici undertook a
comprehensive study of death by hanging. Inspired by his research, he decided
to find out, first-hand, what it would feel like to die in this way. Minovici began his self-hanging experiments by constructing
an auto-asphyxiation device - a hangman’s knot tied in a rope that ran through
a pulley attached to the ceiling. He lay down on a cot, placed his head through
the noose, and firmly tugged the other end of the rope. The noose tightened,
his face turned a purple-red, his vision blurred, and he heard a whistling. Anyhow, he was not performing these kind of experiments to
long, because his last experiment was the most dangerous one. The last one was
by hanging himself of a ceiling. After hanging himself he got a neck trauma,
which almost cost him his life. His masochistic experimental career was
finished and he committed himself to researching Romanian folk art and founded
a museum that exists to this day.
2. Squeezing Testicles, Shrinking Fingers Experiments
In London
1935, brain specialist Edward Carmichael, conduced a lot of experiments, most
of them were designed to test the reaction of the sympathetic nervous system to
sudden shocks. The subjects had to keep their eyes tightly closed. Carmichael then exposed them to a series of shocks, all
the while recording the expansion and contraction of their fingers. The shocks took a variety of forms. He produced sudden
noises, such as screaming or dropping a plank of wood on the floor. He pinched
the subjects on the arm and poked them with pins. He dropped pieces of ice down
their back. And he also applied sudden pressure to their testicles.
3. Seeing Through Cat’s Eyes
In 1999 researchers led by Dr. Yang Dan, an assistant
professor of neurobiology at the University
of California, Berkeley did some Clockwork-Orange-style
aversion therapy for cats. He tried to see through some other being eyes. He
glued metal posts to the whites of its eyes, and forced it to look a screen
that showed scene after scene of swaying trees and turtleneck-wearing men.
4. The Electrification of Human Corpses
In 1780 the Italian anatomy professor Luigi Galvani came
across an interesting discovery. He found out the a spark of electricity could
cause the limbs of a dead frog to twitch. Soon after that men of science
throughout Europe were repeating his experiment, but it didn’t take them long
to bore of frogs and start thinking about what would be if this experiment was
to be performed on human corps. This freak show was traveling Europe
for a while. Than the first human body got on the show on January 17, 1803. It
was the body of the executed murderer George Forster. Other researchers tried electrifying bodies, with the
specific hope of restoring them to life, but with no success. Early
nineteenth-century experiments of this kind are considered to have been one of
Mary Shelley’s main sources of inspiration when she wrote her novel
Frankenstein in 1816.
5. Human-Ape Hybrid
Dr. Il’ya Ivanov was a world-renowned expert on veterinary
reproductive biology, but he wanted to do more in life than breed fatter cows.
So in 1927 he traveled to Africa to pursue his
vision of interbreeding man and ape. Thankfully his efforts weren’t successful. He was working at
the West Guinea research facility, where he constantly had to conceal the true
purpose of his experiments. If they had found out what he was really doing, he
wrote in his diary, “this could have led to very unpleasant consequences.” The
necessity of carrying out his work in secrecy made it almost impossible to do
anything, although he did record two unsuccessful attempts to artificially
inseminate female chimpanzees with human sperm. Frustrated, Ivanov returned to the Soviet
Union. He brought an orangutan named Tarzan back with him, hoping
to continue his research in a more accepting environment. Back home he
advertised for female volunteers willing to carry Tarzan’s child, and
remarkably he got a few takers. But then Tarzan died and Ivanov himself was
sent off to a prison camp for a couple of years. This ended his research. There
are vague rumors suggesting that other Soviet scientists continued Ivanov’s
work, but nothing definite has been proven.
6. Beneficial Brainwashing
Dr. Ewen Cameron was trying to find a way how to cure
schizophrenia. His theory was that the brain could be reprogrammed to think in
healthy ways by forcibly imposing new thought patterns on it. His method was to
make patients wear headphones and listen to audio messages looped over and
over, sometimes for days or even weeks at a time. He called this method
“psychic driving,” because the messages were being driven into the psyche. The
press hailed it as “beneficial brainwashing.” When the CIA learned of what Cameron was doing, it became
interested and started surreptitiously channeling him money. But eventually the
agency concluded that Cameron’s technique was a failure and cut his funding,
prompting Cameron himself to admit that his experiments had been “a ten year
trip down the wrong road.” In the late 1970s a group of Cameron’s former
patients filed suit against the CIA for its support of his work and reached an
out-of-court settlement for an undisclosed amount of money.
Source : http://www.paranormalhaze.com
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