Comments on: 10 Real-Life Mad Scientists http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/03/30/10-real-life-mad-scientists/ Explore our guides to the top online schools and learn about how online education can help you meet your academic, professional, and personal goals. Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jean Lafitte http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/03/30/10-real-life-mad-scientists/#comment-260 Jean Lafitte Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:29:30 +0000 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/?p=76#comment-260 You missed a couple of real bastards. Dr. Oliver C. Wenger and Dr. Raymond H. Vonderlehr were the architects of the Tuskegee Study in which African-American men with syphilis were left untreated over long periods of time to establish the natural progression of the disease and subjected to painful procedures such as spinal taps (which they were told were "special free treatments"). Our tax dollars at work (the research was done with funding and under the auspices of the US Public Health Service). The study began in 1932. By its end in 1972 (after whistleblowers gave details of the study to the press), only 74 of the original 399 infected test subjects were alive. 28 of them died of syphilis, 100 died of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis. Throughout the study, deception and outright lies were used to deprive study participants of treatment, even after penicillin had been discovered to be a safe and effective treatment for the disease in the mid-1940s. By comparison, Johann Conrad Dippel's grave robbing (you didn't mention "Dippel's Oil" - which is probably just as well for anyone reading this while eating) was seriocomic at worst. You missed a couple of real bastards. Dr. Oliver C. Wenger and Dr. Raymond H. Vonderlehr were the architects of the Tuskegee Study in which African-American men with syphilis were left untreated over long periods of time to establish the natural progression of the disease and subjected to painful procedures such as spinal taps (which they were told were “special free treatments”). Our tax dollars at work (the research was done with funding and under the auspices of the US Public Health Service).

The study began in 1932. By its end in 1972 (after whistleblowers gave details of the study to the press), only 74 of the original 399 infected test subjects were alive. 28 of them died of syphilis, 100 died of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis.

Throughout the study, deception and outright lies were used to deprive study participants of treatment, even after penicillin had been discovered to be a safe and effective treatment for the disease in the mid-1940s.

By comparison, Johann Conrad Dippel’s grave robbing (you didn’t mention “Dippel’s Oil” – which is probably just as well for anyone reading this while eating) was seriocomic at worst.

]]> By: Zach http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/03/30/10-real-life-mad-scientists/#comment-256 Zach Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:16:54 +0000 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/?p=76#comment-256 What about nikola tesla didnt he accidently discover the resonance of the earth and almost destroy new york with an earthquake? sorry one hand spellings What about nikola tesla didnt he accidently discover the resonance of the earth and almost destroy new york with an earthquake?
sorry one hand spellings

]]> By: borg http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/03/30/10-real-life-mad-scientists/#comment-255 borg Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:26:49 +0000 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/?p=76#comment-255 "There were rumors of him being driven out of town by angered townsfolk after blowing up a tower at Castle Frankenstein with nitroglycerine" wtf, they didn't have nitroglycerin in the 1600's nor is there an e at the end "Nitroglycerin was the first easily developed explosive stronger than black powder. It was discovered by chemist Ascanio Sobrero in 1847" from the wikipedia page “There were rumors of him being driven out of town by angered townsfolk after blowing up a tower at Castle Frankenstein with nitroglycerine”

wtf, they didn’t have nitroglycerin in the 1600′s nor is there an e at the end

“Nitroglycerin was the first easily developed explosive stronger than black powder. It was discovered by chemist Ascanio Sobrero in 1847″

from the wikipedia page

]]> By: dm666 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2009/03/30/10-real-life-mad-scientists/#comment-254 dm666 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:48:35 +0000 http://www.onlinecolleges.net/?p=76#comment-254 oh god.... this is horrible stuff. god knows whats going on these days. maybe 50 yrs down the line we'll come to know of them. oh god…. this is horrible stuff. god knows whats going on these days. maybe 50 yrs down the line we’ll come to know of them.

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