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Walter Freeman: Ice Pick Lobotomist | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Walter Freeman: Ice Pick Lobotomist. Neurologist Walter Freeman strapped 29-year-old Ellen Ionesco to the operating table and delivered coma-inducing jolts of electroshock to her brain. Depressed, manic, violently suicidal, Ionesco was just the sort that was thought to benefit from traditional shock therapy only Freeman wanted to do more than just shock her. This was in 1946 people. “Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chicken’s”. Here’s a fun experiment. Tell your fri...And you...
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Mad Scientist #18: Steven H. Pollock | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Mad Scientist #18: Steven H. Pollock. Photo by Linda Dear. What do you do when you find a bluish lump of fungus previously unknown to science, growing in your petri dish? On first blush, mad scientists and mushrooms don’t appear to have much in common. Mad scientists are reason’s burnt offering to the gods of insanity twisted caricatures of own hubris, doomed eternally to hollows of our brains. Mushrooms are a tasty food. You ask slack-jawed. Loosely put, mycologi...
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Mad Scientist #15: Peter N. Witt | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Mad Scientist #15: Peter N. Witt. In a study that would make even the most cool-headed scientist sweat like a tasty man at a cannibal convention, researchers from the University of Oklahoma pumped nearly 300mg of LSD into the body of a male asiatic elephant. Immediately following the dosage, equivalent to nearly 3000 human hits of acid, the creature suffered a massive seizure and died. Thanks to German pharmacologist Peter N. Witt, we’ve even drugged spiders. By measu...
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Steampunk Archives | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Mad Scientist #16: Charles Babbage. In the not too distant future, when computers inevitably attain consciousness and enslave humanity, the lucky few who manage to escape their Matrix-style pseudo-reality will be left wondering which asshole invented these things in the first place? Babbage developed a digital computer a full century before computers were even a thing. And he did it without transistors, without circuits, without. October 20, 2013. A bizarre clockwork ...
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Mad Surgeons Archives | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Category Archives: Mad Surgeons. Walter Freeman: Ice Pick Lobotomist. Neurologist Walter Freeman strapped 29-year-old Ellen Ionesco to the operating table and delivered coma-inducing jolts of electroshock to her brain. Depressed, manic, violently suicidal, Ionesco was just the sort that was thought to benefit from traditional shock therapy only Freeman wanted to do more than just shock her. Was tearing up the jukebox charts. Future sitcom legend Ed O’Neil. Most amputa...
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Author Archives: Max Hartshorn. Walter Freeman: Ice Pick Lobotomist. Neurologist Walter Freeman strapped 29-year-old Ellen Ionesco to the operating table and delivered coma-inducing jolts of electroshock to her brain. Depressed, manic, violently suicidal, Ionesco was just the sort that was thought to benefit from traditional shock therapy only Freeman wanted to do more than just shock her. Was tearing up the jukebox charts. Future sitcom legend Ed O’Neil. July 31, 2015.
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Mad Inventors Archives | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Category Archives: Mad Inventors. Mad Scientist #16: Charles Babbage. In the not too distant future, when computers inevitably attain consciousness and enslave humanity, the lucky few who manage to escape their Matrix-style pseudo-reality will be left wondering which asshole invented these things in the first place? Babbage developed a digital computer a full century before computers were even a thing. And he did it without transistors, without circuits, without.
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Biblical Archives | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Mad Scientist #19/20: Pierre Barbet and Frederick Zugibe. Note: This article was republished with permission from the April 2015 edition of. You can view a PDF of the original here. Or get a subscription…it’s the best! Continue reading →. This entry was posted in Biblical. June 7, 2015. Draw To Death Illustration. Here Come The Oboes. Robocop Eating Fried Chicken. Walter Freeman: Ice Pick Lobotomist. Mad Scientist #19/20: Pierre Barbet and Frederick Zugibe.
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Soviet Madness Archives | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Category Archives: Soviet Madness. Mad Scientist #13/14: Vladimir Demikhov and Robert White. Okay, so you’ve got the job interview of your life tomorrow, just one small problem: your kidney is failing. Also your spleen has ruptured. You’re experiencing necrosis of the liver, critical hyperkalemia, and, why not, septic shock. In short, you’re dying…or are you? 8221; Continue reading →. This entry was posted in Mad Doctors. January 1, 2013. A trained physician and maste...
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Mad Scientist #12: Giles Brindley | Mad Scientist Blog
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An Encyclopaedia of Science Madness. Mad Scientist #12: Giles Brindley. The audience sure was. This was 1983 by the way. Viagra, and the days when aging senators. Spoke candidly about their struggles with ED, were still years off. So the elderly professor leapt from behind the podium and dropped his slacks, revealing “a long, thin, clearly erect [achem] penis.”. Now, he said, “I’d like to give some of the audience the opportunity to confirm the degree of tumescence. Brindley injected 17 different drugs i...