There’s something about the experimental nature of science that attracts the crazies.
You just won’t believe what despicable, weird and just downright evil things these
pioneers of the bizarre have done.
1.
Sergei S. Bryukhonenko, was a Soviet scientist, and head of the Research Institute of Experimental
Surgery, during the Stalin era.
Now that’s a recipe for a mad scientist if ever I heard one.
Sergei was the inventor of the first artificial heart machine, which he called the autojektor,
a machine that’s purpose was to sustain life through artificial means.
It was used to help perform the first Soviet open heart surgery.
Seems to be going pretty well so far doesn’t it, well this is the bit where it goes weird.
Sergei was obsessed with mutilating animals then seeing how long he could keep their dismembered
heads alive.
His laboratory was filled with dead, mostly headless, dogs.
I told you it gets weird.
Sergei’s most infamous experiment was documented on video and it involved decapitating a dog,
which he then placed on a table.
Sergei then managed to bring the head back to life using his homemade life support machine.
The severed dog’s head was fully responsive and it even accepted a treat from the staff.
The original recording of the experiment can be found on the internet, but I should warn
you it’s not for the faint hearted.
2.
During World War II, thousands of human experiments were carried out by nazi scientists under
Hitler’s instruction.
The goal of these experiments was to discover new ways to aid German military personnel
whom had been injured during combat, and also to discover radical new medical treatments
to advance Hitler’s ideology.
The leader of these experiments was Dr. Josef Mengele.
Who earned himself the nickname the “Angel of Death” for the atrocities he carried
out.
When new inmates arrived at Auschwitz, Mengele would select which were to be gassed and which
would be taken to the laboratory to conduct his inhumane experiments on.
Josef Mergele was obsessed by twins, he would often attempt to stitch the flesh, blood vessels
and organs of twins together in an attempt to create Siamese twins.
But his subjects often contracted gangrene and died after a couple of days of unimaginable
pain.
Josef performed experiments such as putting victims into pressure chambers, castration,
freezing subjects to death, removal of organs and limbs and even performing sex change operations.
Most of the victims were murdered following the experiment, if they didn’t straight
up die from the experiment that is.
3.
During the second Sino-Japanese War and World War II the Imperial Japanese Army setup a
covert biological and chemical research and development base called Unit 731.
They told the locals it was a water treatment plant, but that guise must have fallen apart
pretty quickly once the locals realised that the screams of tortured humans sounds remarkably
different than running water.
Microbiologist, and medical officer Shirō Ishii, was the director of Unit 731.
He committed numerous atrocities at Unit 731, in the name of science, including: vivisection
of living people without anaesthetic, including pregnant women, dismembering peoples limbs
then reattaching them to other parts of their body, injecting subjects with deadly diseases
to study the effects and even using people as live test targets for grenades and flame
throwers.
However after the war ended Shirō Ishii never spent any time in jail for his atrocities,
because he was granted immunity by the US government.
Some believe this is because the US made a pact with Japan during the war to help cover
up Unit 731, in exchange for medical knowledge of their findings.
4.
At number 4 is Sidney Gottlieb, but he had, possibly the coolest alias of all the evil
scientists, his colleagues referred to him as Dr. Feelgood.
He was an American military psychiatrist with a Ph.D in chemistry.
During the Cold War the CIA hired him to help develop biological weapons and poisons to
use against the Russians.
But Gottlieb’s only answer to taking out America’s enemies was to poison them all.
Gottlieb proposed the idea of killing Fidel Castro with either a poisoned cigar, a poisoned
fountain pen, or a poisoned wetsuit, whichever was easiest, it turns out none was the answer,
since he’s still alive.
Gottlieb’s other unsuccessful poisoning attempts included an Iraqi general and the
prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But that’s just the tip of Sidney Gottlieb’s weird iceberg.
He was also the head of the MKULTRA project.
Which studied the possibility of using LSD to mind control one’s enemies.
They were interested if the psychedelic drug could be used to break a person’s mind for
the purpose of interrogation.
So Gottlieb and his colleague’s spent a large portion of their time getting high on
acid.
But they soon realised they would need test subjects other than themselves.
However instead of inviting willing subjects to get high on LSD, Gottlieb instead travelled
around America slipping LSD into people’s drinks and observing the effects.
He mainly targeted prostitutes and drug addicts.
5.
Next up is American psychologist, Harry Harlow, he had the nickname “Monkey Torturer”,
you just know that this guy qualifies for this video with a name like that.
He was obsessed with finding out “what is love”, and for some unknown reason he decided
the best way to do that was by torturing baby monkeys.
Yes, that’s right baby monkeys.
To achieve his goal Harlow invented a range of monkey torturing devices.
One of his most infamous, he lovingingly referred to as the “rape rack”.
Harlow would use his rape rack device to force monkeys to mate.
He also had a device he called the “iron maiden”.
But perhaps his most controversial experiment was called the “pit of despair”.
Harlow would place a baby monkey in a small isolated chamber for up to a year, without
any contact with another living creature.
As a result, the monkeys all became psychotic and never recovered.