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A patient undergoing pyrotherapy. Source: wikimedia commons

Daily MOS: Treating Syphilis with… Malaria?!

February 24, 2021 SciBabe 3

Choose a craziest part: he tried treating syphilis with malaria, it worked, he won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1927… and also, he was a fucking Nazi.

A graphic depicting a lobotomy

Daily MOS: The Cruel Breakthrough of the Lobotomy

January 11, 2021 SciBabe 1

Much like when facebook said “we’re gonna start moderating content,” when we said we wanted mental health breakthroughs, it was better than nothing but we should have been more specific.

Hisashi Ouchi's chromosomes after radiation exposure.

Daily MoS: The Nuclear Tragedy of Hisashi Ouchi

January 10, 2021 SciBabe 4

Hisashi Ouchi received more than enough radiation to kill him, but doctors fought for months to keep him alive. Why?

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