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      Top 10 most bizarre experiments

      1.Elephant receives massive dose of LSD to see if it induces temporary madness. Conclusion: LSD is fatal to elephants

      2.Aircraft passengers told they are about to die in crash make more mistakes in written test. Conclusion: Extreme stress harms cognitive ability

      3.Two-headed dogs created by Soviet surgeon, above, but die within a month. Conclusion: Tissue rejection makes animals incompatible

      4.Psychologist begins experiments on son to test if laughing is spontaneous when tickled. Conclusion: Laughing is an innate response to tickling

      5.A room of nail-biting boys is played a recording or spoken announcements to break the habit while they sleep. Conclusion: Sleep learning is possible. Others prove otherwise

      6.To test if people can sleep through anything, volunteers have their eyes taped open and bright lights shone in their eyes. Conclusion: The men dozed off in 12 minutes

      7.People asked to smell ammonia, put hands in a bucket of frogs and watch porn. Conclusion: Disgust has no single expression.

      8.Doctor rubs vomit from yellow fever patients into open wounds and drinks it. Conclusion: Mistakenly claims it is not infectious

      9.Animal corpses placed on seesaw to restart circulation and bring them back to life. Conclusion: Two animals survive with blindness and brain damage

      10.Fake female turkey dismantled limb by limb to find minimum that a male will mate with. Conclusion: Male turkeys aroused by a head on a stick, but not a headless body

      http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/nov/01/research
      I particularily liked this quote.

      “the males were still highly aroused when presented with no more than a head on a stick”.

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      mudstomper
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        Not only fucking quality, but inspirational, beware to all that come to the next party :weee:

        #1144904
        mudstomper
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          Not only fucking quality, but inspirational, beware to all that come to the next party :weee:

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          BioTech
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            :bigsmile:

            Although I don’t know how this one would work:

            2.Aircraft passengers told they are about to die in crash make more mistakes in written test. Conclusion: Extreme stress harms cognitive ability

            Why would anybody who was just told they are about to crash, carry on doing a written test? The only possible explanation is that they are aware that the crash warning is part of the experiment, therefore making the experiment useless.

            #1144903
            BioTech
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              :bigsmile:

              Although I don’t know how this one would work:

              2.Aircraft passengers told they are about to die in crash make more mistakes in written test. Conclusion: Extreme stress harms cognitive ability

              Why would anybody who was just told they are about to crash, carry on doing a written test? The only possible explanation is that they are aware that the crash warning is part of the experiment, therefore making the experiment useless.

              #1123989
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                BioTech wrote:
                :bigsmile:

                Although I don’t know how this one would work:

                Why would anybody who was just told they are about to crash, carry on doing a written test? The only possible explanation is that they are aware that the crash warning is part of the experiment, therefore making the experiment useless.

                I think that this experiment proves more than just that stress effects your ability to fill out a form, but also that soldiers have been brainwashed so much. that even when they belive they are going to die they will still follow the orders of a senior officer, even if it seems like a totally pointless order. dont know if thats a good or a bad thing.

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                  BioTech wrote:
                  :bigsmile:

                  Although I don’t know how this one would work:

                  Why would anybody who was just told they are about to crash, carry on doing a written test? The only possible explanation is that they are aware that the crash warning is part of the experiment, therefore making the experiment useless.

                  I think that this experiment proves more than just that stress effects your ability to fill out a form, but also that soldiers have been brainwashed so much. that even when they belive they are going to die they will still follow the orders of a senior officer, even if it seems like a totally pointless order. dont know if thats a good or a bad thing.

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