The most bizarre experiments of all time

Injecting drugs for elephants, sexually provoking turkeys and blowing souls into corpses, are some of the craziest experiments ever voted and published by New Scientist magazine.

The most bizarre experiments in history

1. Elephant injects drugs

In 1962, US researchers were curious what would happen to an elephant injected with a hallucinogenic drug (LSD). And they injected a one-cylinder long ivory elephant full of medicine, with a dose of 3,000 times the maximum dose for humans.

The elephant roared ferociously, collapsed and died within an hour, despite efforts to save life with anti-epileptic drugs."It is clear that elephants are very sensitive to the effects of LSD," the researchers timidly concluded.

2. Revive the dead body

Wishing to restore life to the deceased, Robert Cornish , a scientist at the University of California, USA, in the 1930s, pushed the rocking corpses up and down to circulate blood and inject substances adrenalin and antifreeze.

Out of school because of this horrific experiment , Cornish continued at home. He built a laboratory in which a pulmonary heart machine was created from a vacuum cleaner and heat dissipation material.

Thomas McMonigle, a prisoner who was about to be executed, volunteered to be a Cornish experiment but was opposed by the California government, because they feared that if McMonigle was resurrected, he could have freedom and threaten again. for the society.

3. Sleep open eyes

In 1960, Ian Oswald, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, UK, wondered if anyone could sleep with his eyes still open. He gave volunteers to lie down on a couch, fixed their eyes in an open state, placed a row of white light in front of their eyes, attached electrodes to their feet to create painful shocks and turned the music on. ear.

3 brave volunteers agreed to participate in the experiment. Despite all the obstacles to sleep, the EEG shows that all fell asleep within 12 minutes.

4. Aphrodisiac for turkeys

Two researchers Martin Schein and Edgar Hale at Pennsylvania State University, USA, found male turkeys, when placed in a room with a real chicken-like model, immediately rushed in. love with fake children, with the same attitude of excitement as with real children.

Males are very greedy males. (Photo: in.gov)

Schein and Hale experiment to find out what is the minimum level of sexual stimulation , by slowly removing parts of the model until the male is completely out of interest.

"The tail, the feet and the wings - the scientists have all left, but the stupid bird still rushes to the model, emitting a voice full of lust and finding ways to accomplish the behavior," the author said. Alex Boese of New Scientist wrote.

"In the end there is only one head left. The male chicken is still bloody. In fact, he still prefers a head attached to a stick rather than a headless body ," Boese said.

5. Stanford prison experiment

In 1971, a Stanford prison experiment was conducted to study people's reactions and psychological conditions in detention. Volunteers who act as guards and prisoners are brought to live in the basement of a building.

The experiment took place at Stanford prison.

They adapted to the role quickly in a way that made scientists unexpected. Nearly half of the prisoners have completely exposed the brutal tendency, while many prisoners are emotionally hurt.

Due to fears that the incident would go too far, psychologist Philip Zimbardo - the initiator of the experiment announced the end of the experiment earlier than planned.

6. Experiment with demons

The experiment was conducted on 22 orphaned children, divided into 2 groups (illustration).

In 1939, Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa conducted a crazy experiment. He divided 22 orphaned children into 2 groups. The first group is always praised and encouraged in the speeches. In contrast, the second group is often criticized violently for errors.

At the end of the experiment, the children in the second group were severely affected and shy and frightened. The experiment was hidden due to fears of affecting reputation, in the context of Nazi human experiments being condemned by the world.

By 2001, the experiment was uncovered. The University of Iowa had to apologize for the incident.

6. Project 4.1

Project 4.1 is a medical study conducted by the United States on Marshall Islands residents who were exposed to the radioactive dust of Castle Bravo nuclear test on January 1, 1994.

The experimental report was later shown to double miscarriage and stillbirth in women with radiation in the first 5 years but then returned to normal. Children in this island have some development problems but are not common.

Tumor picture of a radiation victim.

However, in the following decades, there were undeniable effects of radioactive status. Children begin to show signs of adenocarcinoma and one-third of infected people show signs of tumors.

In the report of the US Energy Commission, it was found that the experimental group recognized the risk of health problems but did not perform any medical therapy. The report also accused the dual purpose of the program of using Marshall residents like 'white mice' for the experiment.

7. MKULTRA project

MKULTRA project was conducted by the CIA from the early 1950s to the late 1960s. Victims were injected with many drugs causing hallucinations and changes in brain function.

Victims are injected with many drugs that cause hallucinations.

These drugs are given to both CIA staff, military personnel, doctors, government employees, prostitutes, mental patients and other normal people. Later, these people were taken into brothels to observe activity through a one-way mirror.

In 1973, now CIA Director Richard Helms ordered the destruction of all project-related documents. So today, there is not much specific information about MKULTRA known.

8. Project Aversion

Aversion is a project of the South African army deployed in the 70s and 80s of the twentieth century in order to conduct "transgender gender" for white gay soldiers. Most of them are male, aged 16 to 24 years old.

Dr. Aubrey Levin, who conducted the experiment.

The missionaries after discovering the homosexual expression will order these soldiers to go to the base army unit. They will be tied to outdoor wooden piles, ridiculed, beaten and locked into isolated jails.

If still not ' sick ', the soldiers will switch over to treatment at the Army hospital. Here, doctors will conduct drug therapy, shocking hallucinations, treating hormones by injecting sex hormones.

It is known that this project is conducted by Dr. Aubrey Levin, currently a clinical professor at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta.

9. Tuskegee study

Tuskegee is a clinical study with about 399 poorly treatable African American African American patients from 1932 to 1972 in Albama (USA).

Part of the original goal of the study was to determine if the patient was more positive if treated with toxic remedies. However, this study became famous because doctors did not treat people with syphilis but only observed how the disease developed.

These people do not treat the disease but only receive free meals and burial insurance in case of death. By the end of the study, only 74 participants were still alive.