Her letter prompted Drinker to make the information public by publishing his original report in a scientific journal. US Radium executives were furious, and threatened legal action, but Drinker published his findings nonetheless. Among other things, his report stated: “Dust samples collected in the ...
Those pesky “scientific ethics” hinder any effort to reproduce the Guppy Syndrome with humans in a controlled environment. Since no one is willing to replicate the circumstances of the guppy syndrome for people, one can only speculate about the contortions a human mind makes in mate-choice cop...
The science of eugenics was perverted by the Nazis and turned into a social science that wasn’t based on evidence. But here is something the history books lied to you about. Before the Nazis made it unpopular, most of the scientific community agreed that the fundamental principles behind euge...
In order to satiate his scientific appetite, he undertook a series of experiments at Johns Hopkins University to determine whether an infant could indeed be conditioned to fear cute-and-cuddly animals by associating them with scary stimuli. A couple decades earlier Pavlov’s notorious dogs had been...