23 IRL Mad Scientists Deleted From History Books

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23 IRL Mad Scientists Deleted From History Books

Hey science is great, you know? It's given us lots of wonderful things like the human genome and peanut butter cups. But clearly, at some point, the pressure just gets to the great thinkers of the world. We feel you, scientists -- sometimes life pushes you to the snapping point, so you just kind of say "Screw it" and go rogue on the whole process.

That's why we teamed up with photo scientist AuntieMeme to create this tribute to some scientists who reached the point of zero fucks given. Because even crazy people deserve a shout out every now and again.

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Wilhelm Reich collected sex energy. He believed that sex generated a magical energy he called orgone energy. He built metal boxes called orgone accumu

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Harry Harlow was cruel to monkeys. He wanted to study love, and he decided the best way to do So was to withhold it from baby monkeys. Among the tortu

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Sergei S. Bryukhonenko reanimated a dog head. He was a Soviet scientist during the Stalin era, and was working on the first heart-lung machine. So he

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Albert Bandura beat up clowns, for science. Bandura wanted to know whether children would act out violence they'd seen committed by adults, so he made

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Jose Delgado inserted mind-control chips into brains. And not just animal brains. He also used them on humans - including mental patients. So he'd put

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