Daily MOS: The Crimes of/against Nikolai Vavilov
The man Lenin hired to save the USSR from famine died of starvation in a Soviet prison in 1943.
Science History
Daily MOS: 420
THC has caused a bit of a ruckus. Shame- it’s an amazing medicine and a delightful way to make the comments section marginally less annoying.
Daily MOS: The Minnesota Starvation Experiment
At the guinea pig unit, 500 conscientious objectors volunteered to take part in medical experiments. Ancel Keys’ starvation experiment was one of them.
Daily MOS: Weyburn Mental Hospital
They made laws dictating that they needed a mental health facility. The law really wasn’t too clear on things like “don’t purposefully put patients into a coma with excessive insulin” or “dropping acid at work is frowned upon.” I can see how confusion arose.
Daily MOS: The Oppau Disaster
On with the dynamite they went, as they’d done a reported 20,000 times before. Witnesses heard two explosions, and a piece of this world was torn from existence.
Daily MOS: The Eradication of Smallpox, Part II
A veritable army of 135,000 doctors from 170 countries made over a billion house calls to bring the last stand of smallpox to an end.
Daily MOS: The Eradication of Smallpox, Part I
Long before Edward Jenner’s alleged revelation with the milkmaids was the “prevent smallpox by snorting diseased flesh like cocaine” racket.
Daily MOS: Split Brain Surgery
Sperry figured he should have a few chats with the patients with split brains for funsies. Because if it’s making cats act strange, what the fuck is it doing to humans?
Daily MOS: The Proud History of the Barber Surgeon
Once you hear about barbers giving enemas, colon hydrotherapy at a medispa seems less cuckoo and more a tale as old as buttholes and barbers.
Daily MOS: The Bioterrorist Ransom of Anthrax Island
How does that conversation go? “Yeah, I need a test site. Uh-huh, anthrax. Yes, a whole island.”Will 80 sheep off the coast of Scotland do?”