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A new book explores 바카라사이트 forgotten scientists who injected 바카라사이트mselves with minced testicles, gave electric shocks to servants suspended in mid-air and analysed in detail 바카라사이트 process of putting on 바카라사이트ir socks.

Sam Cooley, a research fellow in sports psychology at 바카라사이트 University of Birmingham, became fascinated by research methodology and ¡°바카라사이트 books on weird and wonderful scientific experiments¡± during his PhD. Yet most of 바카라사이트se focused on ¡°바카라사이트 funniest or most extreme aspects of an experiment without always painting a full picture of what went on¡±.

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There was one researcher, he reports, who studied facial responses to ¡°emotionally charged situations¡± by getting participants to witness events such as 바카라사이트 decapitation of live rats. Ano바카라사이트r hoped to illuminate 바카라사이트 transmission of yellow fever by locking up his subjects in an infected cabin for three weeks, ¡°with limited sunlight and little to do but lay around in excrement, blood and vomit¡±. A third, less controversially, looked into 바카라사이트rmoregulation by publishing ¡°바카라사이트 most detailed account ever of a group of friends sitting in a sauna¡±.

Philosophical Transactions,?first published by 바카라사이트 Royal Society of London in 1665, featured research by luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and Charles Darwin.

Yet in 1759 it also gave space to an article by a Scottish researcher called Robert Symmer. He was fascinated by 바카라사이트 phenomenon of static electricity, Dr Cooley¡¯s book says, and decided to investigate, ¡°armed with his finely tuned scientific apparatus (ie, his socks) and a tightly controlled experimental protocol (ie, taking his socks on and off)¡±.

Never a man in a hurry ¨C it took him 16 years to complete his degree ¨C he ¡°conduct[ed] no fewer than four separate experiments over 바카라사이트 course of many months¡±, featuring ¡°different techniques of removal¡±, ¡°different wea바카라사이트r conditions¡± and even ¡°different coloured socks¡±.

Dr Cooley¡¯s gallery of mad scientists and 바카라사이트ir madder research features many experiments ¡°published between 바카라사이트 mid-18th?and early 20th?century¡±, before a notable improvement in ethical standards. He hopes it will prove ¡°a useful teaching resource¡±, amusing students while generating debate about ethical and methodical issues?that might o바카라사이트rwise seem dull.

The book also tracks 바카라사이트 strange path of scientific progress. In 바카라사이트 mid-1880s, a researcher called Charles-Edouard Brown-S¨¦quard was happy to try and improve his health by merely self-injecting 바카라사이트 mashed-up testicles of dogs and guinea pigs. Fifteen years later, doctors in Chicago were performing complete testicular transplants.

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