MOS: The Human Radiation Experiments

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

A eugenicist superintendent at a school in Massachusetts approved feeding lightly radioactive oatmeal to his mentally disabled students. But they took the kids to some Red Sox games, so.

MOS: The Merchant of Syphilis

January 25, 2024 SciBabe 0

From 1946 to 1948, Cutler led studies on multiple bacterial STDs. Like the Terre Haute experiments, people were deliberately infected; unlike the prisoners, those infected were told almost nothing. Estimates of the number of victims are as high as 5,000 people.

MOS: The Forbidden Experiments

January 23, 2024 SciBabe 0

Contemporary scholars question the authenticity of these stories. Which means we’re a society that makes up legends about experimenting on babies.