MOS: Wrinkle Cream & Prison Labor
A newly trained dermatologist, he was hired by Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia, PA to help treat an outbreak of athlete’s foot. In Holmesburg, he saw far more than fungal infections; he saw potential.
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MOS: The Merchant of Syphilis
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: Operation Delirium
And then there was that time a drug failed to treat tummy aches in Switzerland, so the US government locked some soldiers in a room and made them trip balls on that shit for god and country.
MOS: The Forbidden Experiments
Contemporary scholars question the authenticity of these stories. Which means we’re a society that makes up legends about experimenting on babies.
Daily MOS: Philip Zimbardo’s Prison
Today, the Stanford Prison Experiment reads more like cosplay for clueless dumbasses than a groundbreaking experiment.
Daily MOS: Porton Down & Ethics in Experimentation
A more accurate name would be “Porton Down: we killed so many bunnies it got weird.”
Daily MOS: The Holy Stomach of Alexis St. Martin
Since digestion is a process that takes hours to truly observe, it remained largely a mystery until a bullet intended for a duck accidentally split open Alexis St. Martin.