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#10 Why you should not experiment on yourself


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If you want something done, do it yourself. That was the approach of the scientists from this episode. Eight strange scientists (and a few more) who went the extra mile to prove their hypothesis, and crossed the final frontier: experimenting on themselves. -- Sources: Enrique Chaves-Carballo (2005): Carlos Finlay and yellow fever: triumph over adversity. Military Medicine / HFW Wulf (1998): The centennial of spinal anesthesia. Anesthesiology / RF Mould (2007): Pierre Curie, 1859–1906. Current Oncology / Veena Rao (2015): JBS Haldane, an Indian scientist of British origin. Current Science / JM Siegel: A tribute to Nathaniel Kleitman. Psychiatry and Brain Research Institute. University of California, Los Angeles / Dieter Hagenbach; Lucius Werthmüller; Stanislav Grof (2013): Mystic Chemist: The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press / "The Doctor Who Drank Infectious Broth, Gave Himself an Ulcer, and Solved a Medical Mystery". Discover Magazine / Elisabeth Svoboda (2008): The Worms Crawl In. TheNew York Times.

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