News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On all podcast platforms. It's the HD era! This episode, I was joined by Eric (twitter: @waityourarobot). We primarily talked about human medical experimentation. The things we covered include:

- Society Show quiz: A location in World of Warcraft Burning Crusade or a religious pilgrimage site?

- Speculation on human experimentation in ancient history

- The first known documentation of live human experimentation by Roman Aulus Cornelius Celsus

- Celsus's book De Medicina, where he wrote about prisoners donated by kings to doctors for live experimentation

- The 1788 Doctor's Riot in New York City

- Doctors were robbing graves of slaves for corpse experimentation, leading to an anti-doctor riot

- Dr. Henry Cotton, who was portrayed in season 5 of Boardwalk Empire

- Dr. Cotton's fanatical belief that mental health issues are caused by inflammation within the body

- Unit 731 in China, where Imperial Japan did mass live human experimentation, in grotesque, Human Centipede-like experiments

- The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, where black sharecroppers in the south were infected with syphilis, unbeknownst to them, that wasn't properly treated

- The numerous types of experimentation at Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia

- EA-3167, an extremely potent deliriant and incapacitating agent tested, that causes people's brains to get warped and confused for several months

- Carl Schmitt - the Nazi philosopher

- Dental experimentation on Swedish mental ward patients at Vipeholm, to determine if processed sugar was bad for your teeth

- Willowbrook, an overcrowded and crumbling mental institution for kids in New York

- At Willowbrook, they tested how Hepatitis A is spread - which they accurately suspected was spread through poop

- They began contaminating the food of patients with hepatitis infested poop as they moved in

- Abdullah the Butcher had to pay damages after spreading Hepatitis C in a wrestling ring

- Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center in Massachusetts, the "poster child" institution for eugenics in the 1920s

- Contaminating the children at the Fernald Center's oatmeal with radio isotopes

- The Belmont Report, which established standards in medical testing and experimentation

- Senseless, the Marlon Wayans and David Spade movie about 

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