Human Experimentation: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly 

A new Fractured Fairy Tale. Goldilocks and the 10 Hookworms. 😊

Or surgical leeches

Snow White and the Ten Hookworms. Sleepy Hooky Grumpy Hooky Gimpy Hooky Etc.....

so you are the one -_- who discovered food poisoning

Actually the more they eat the more full of shit they become.

necessaryevil455 ba dum tss*

The WinRar!

Haha

they didnt conduct tests on themselves tho they didnt know or suspect the damaging effects and so didnt test for them.

GO CURIES!! WHOOOOO!! I played Marie Curie for a Drive-Thru History class.

Google Daniel Alcides Carrión

I'm gonna do the Attack on Titan satute.

Akansha Singh u can talk to the dead ?

What does getting hit by a cab have to do with surviving radiation exposure?

He spent just as much time around radioactive materials as his wife. If he hadn't been hit and killed by that cab he would have died of radiation poisoning just like her.

What kind of a statement is that

A factual one?

So, what did the cab do again?

Altruism makes society stronger.

As it applies to physical anthropology the concept of altruism is a matter of benefitting others at cost to yourself. In closely related primates it tightens social bonds between individuals while in the kingdom Animalia at large it ensures better chances of survival for the population (which is particularly important when you have a vested genetic interest in that population's survival), and it's what's thought to have developed the intensely close socialization patterns in early human ancestors that both allowed for and required increased intelligence. For this fact it's a matter of rational self-sacrifice rather than self-interest, but rational no less; you're doing something that may pose a risk to yourself, or it may just cost you time or energy, but which benefits the longterm survival of your genetic material. Genetically we're more predisposed to care for that long-game of inheritance when our genes have already been passed on than we are for our own individual survival. This is why it's selected for generally in evolution and why it's as honed as it is in humans particularly: without innate physical prowesses our best chance at survival would be intelligence, the close social bonds that allow its cultivation, and using that intelligence to benefit longterm survival beyond just ourselves -- altruism.

BobWidlefish I'd like to disagree if only for the fact that it's certainly a sacrifice for yourself in that you put in the investment (and potential risk, depending on circumstances) without a receiving a reward for you yourself. It's a detriment, in fact, as you sacrifice something of yours for the betterment of another with no indication that this action will be reciprocated. Strictly biologically it is by definition a loss on your account, and thus sacrifice. You incur a cost, even if it's just energy, food, or time, and reap no benefit for your actions -- which is just to say that the transaction is a one-way matter. Rather than a reciprocal exchange of goods or services it's a donation on your part: you give up something of yours and get nothing in return other than the intangible satisfaction of having aided someone or the knowledge that your population as a whole is better equipped for survival, if even only moderately. That you do good for others with no "real" (biologically real, which is to say sustenance or a returning-of-favors) return on investment for you as an individual is the core of altruism in both the physical sciences sense and the philosophical (so far as I understand it in philosophy, anyway). Placing your own needs below the needs of the community as a whole or the needs of particulars within that community in order to maintain that whole's strength is absolutely altruism. Say you're a communal ape, and you need to eat in order to survive; so do other members within your community; you sacrifice the fruits and bushbabies you've just foraged and hunted for to a sick member of your community. This is altruistic behavior because you have no compensation for your action, which has cost you a meal. Or, in the case of the above scientists, you've tested treatments on yourself at the very real potential cost of your own life. You incur the risk of potential death, while the benefit is for the group as a whole rather than you yourself. This, too, is absolutely altruistic behavior.

BobWidlefish + Riley Vandewater You're both making really good arguments. Personally, I gotta go with Riley, but you both are making astoundingly good arguments for the semantics of what truly qualifies as altruism. What should be considered altruism, and what shouldn't... I know this is a one year old thread, but still! Beautifully said guys!

Altruism isn't so great. I'd rather live but most of society dies. After all, if I'm dead, I can't care if they're alive.

+Matthew the Earth Adept id rather try a herb ;)

+Woof Not on the right side of The Pond. Anyway, shouldn't it be THE herb ;)

In RP the "h" is pronounced, in contrary to AmE ;)

It's not considered a symbiosis because the hookworms aren't what's causing the benefit, the immune system is. The leading theory is that the branch of the immune system that responds to parasites is also the branch that's involved in autoimmune disease. That being said, a lot of it is still being actively researched.

Parasitism is a type of symbiosis anyway.

John Meo the Egyptians had advanced chemistry and medical knowledge but they notoriously kept it secret; only sharing it among the elite classes who practiced the sciences. When ancient Egypt began collapsing, the common peasants rebelled and many of these keepers of knowledge were killed or exiled from Egypt. The knowledge, for the most part, died out with the people who knew it, as the information was mostly passed from master to disciple verbally to safeguard the secrets. The deaths of those in the know reset medical and chemical knowledge by hundreds of years. That’s why public education for all is highly important in the modern era.

Right

Jan Ritter *casually running in background*

I'd take the asthma.

...I think i got it... *50 HOOKWORMS*

Asthma

Well; how about hook worms with asthma? Checkmate nature!

Hookworms

Lathy Loon Agreed I read alot on them for an Essay. The saying "horrified but intrigued" has never been so accurate .

But in doing so, saved millions. lol

Jonathan Knobel it's for a greater good. Not doing that would be one of the biggest mistakes in history. The only upside would be the vaccine autism trend would never happen

Goodness gracious, people. Vaccines do *NOT* cause autism. *Period*.

***** i heard it from the local cat-woman. it must be true. i'd rather have super-malaria! or wait...

It wasn't smallpox, the puss he injected is damaged smallpox. Like regular vaccines it can't hurt the body. Vaccines are just damaged diseases injected to people to make them immune later on.

you could say this video lacks hentrietta :D

+Ginger Ruparts im glad i wasn't the only one

I love the Panic fandom

:)

Ahh yes the panic fandom

+Lauren the Potato We're everywhere... EVERYWHERE

Isabelle Pavlik Lacks, but yeah, that would be an interesting video.

+floofytown I was anstonished too :)

I was thinking the same thing and looking trough the comments for a comment like this one :)

order them online

+cold hunter YOU CAN ORDER THEM ONLINE??? TAKE MY FUCKING MONEY!!!!!!!!!

+Al Su I'd love a cure for my asthma that always flairs up to epic proportions at the beginning of summer

Apart from pills, do tell me. I a on a constant pill regimen to keep my chronic urticaria in check.

I did that treatment. (Allergen injections) Took my pollen allergy from Bedridden Torture Victim to Highly Discomfortable but manageable.

sameh elmserey do you mean Arabic subtitles

If you hit captions on the setting for the video you can select "English" which will be the subtitles, for future reference captions and subtitles are the same thing, since a Subtitle can be a secondary title for a movie/book etc. Although maybe since you're from Egypt, and YT has started lacking in quality, RU-vid doesn't have the English captions? Which would be strange but it it's YT

Sassy The Sasquatch I wish I could "love" your comment

Purple Toast he can read English but he has some trouble listening English.

Semeh, I use CC also whenever it is available. Steps: 1. Click on CC. 2. Click on the settings icon which provides a drop-down menu. 3. Click on Subtitles for a new menu. 4. Click on Auto-translate for language menu in alphabetical order. 5. Click on the language of your choice.

helps a little, I guess, but it's way less effective than the way we clean our wounds.

Lady Lucario My guess is no, you should not lick your own wounds. There is more bacteria in the human mouth than in a public toilet bowl, so smearing an open wound with bacteria probably isn't a good idea.

Lady Lucario thanks for the reply from your DVR sender immediately notify me

In saliva there is natural anesthetic. So ...

There's another video that talks about this very subject ... I think it's from Vsauce.

It was a test on radiation treatment, not the discoveriestvog periodic table elements.

Absolute badasses.

as long as I don't exhibit the symptoms of the hookworms and other wise not know of their existence. I'd be down with it. and as long as it actually helped me with my inability to go outside for extended periods.

Brobuscus115 I agree

Given what they said about fifty being too many, I assume ten was not enough to cause significant symptoms.

they’re treatable tho... and allergies aren’t even on the same plane as asthma. also, asthma is for life, hookworms aren’t.

Hypatia4242 I could be wrong, but it seems like I have heard him talk about the lab mouse before. Couldn't tell you what episode.

Jason Wood Science taboos, he was talking about chimeras.

+Hypatia4242 SciShow is not affiliated with PETA.

Valken I never implied that it was/should be. I did not say experimenting on animals was itself unethical, I asked if Scishow had ever looked at those studies which famously misused animals, to the detriment of science. Misconducted animal experiments has resulted in releasing unsafe medication onto the market, which then harmed humans. Vivisection without anesthesia, experimental removal of body parts, isolation and starvation of animal test subjects also all provide confounding variables in experiments and has led us to wrong or useless conclusions. The incompetence and unethical behavior of bad researchers is worth discussing.

Hypatia4242 You seem to have a good view on this, different from those who think human existence is possible without animal sacrifice. I believe the problem is excess. Excess fishing. Excess population. In this competition without end for human pleasure, the world will end. Humans have used animals since we were Indians.

wat? go search it up or something.

Don't mind me, just making sure this doesn't get relevant to the main question.

Hey buddy wrong video or else you just alienated a ton of people by making a joke that shot well over all of our heads. I think it funny regardless, however xD

Darticus the Great It wasn't a joke, I was really desperate to know how to perform a bombchu-backflip-hover glitch at the time!

Josef Schwardt But this video has nothing to do about Majora's mask whatsoever, to my knowledge, so what you said seems extremely out of place xD. I said I thought it was a joke because it was just so out of place that the randomness made it funny.

TheEngineGal unit 731 you mean?

I'm glad something else noticed that glaring omission as well.

One word: Delusional.

They do

Helps distract the mind :))

Latin is the language of science. Pretty much any scientific discovery or law is named in Latin.

Greece was part of the Roman Empire at the time. Latin was the language of Rome. Simple as that.

It's a quote by a Greek, in Greek, in Greece. Therefore, it should be in Greek. End of story.

Burhan the Somali Yeah, that's true, but the upperclass Romans learned it as more of a literary language as opposed to their everyday language. Of course, some people used it just as some people in the US speak Spanish on a normal day.

Jesse Schlothauer Hippocrates lived around 400 B.C. Greece was not a part of the roman empire at the time.

apparently spicy food cant cause ulcers health.howstuffworks.com/diseases-conditions/digestive/spicy-food-ulcers.htm do u have any sources that say it does? Sorry you had to go through that Feel better

Don't know if it was the spicy food, but the acid in the aspirin sure did because I didn't have the the bacteria that causes it they did a culture so it was either the spicy food or to much acid from the aspirin

***** Maybe your hand slipped when you tried swallowing swords. That would have done it as well. However, they also should have noticed the terrible gash running down your esophagus...

Traditional NSAIDs (nosteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) including aspirin, are known to be a risk factor for developing gastric ulcers. By lowering your prostaglandins levels, you will have less bicarbonates (HCO3-), gastric mucus and your gastric flow will be slower. Because, HCO3- and gastric mucus neutralize the gastric acid on your gastric mucus, having less of those substance won't prevent the acid from damaging your gastric mucus which will lead to your ulcer. (It's more of a secondary effet from the drug than your diet)

Akin Turhan well that happens for not being vegan, seriusly, if you wanna live well stop eating cáncer .

Love Z Orange so it's vvacca? (Brought to you by Eridan)

firepiplup no. can you read?

Vacca Flocka

Destina Stallworth r/wooosh

pac-man vaccines.

BrightKnightMC So?

Passs

Interestingly enough, he wasn't far off... but apparently hookworms aren't necessary. Recent studies have shown that allergies are the body's response to "too much hygiene" in recent years and not enough bacteria within our bodies. This is why use of antibiotics in young children is now starting to be very strongly deterred. I actually have a cousin who developed allergies to animals due to exposure to strong antibiotics to deal with I think pneumonia. Anyway, these autoimmune responses that are making people very ill are being reduced, treated, and the severities lessened in trials introducing the bodies to more healthy bacteria. In addition to this, they've found that the recent influx of peanut and nut allergies may be connected to the fact that people AREN'T eating peanuts when they are younger because parents are scared about the effects. In Germany, their peanut allergies are actually statistically EXTREMELY low in comparison to everywhere else in the world and it is thought to be linked to a particular peanut buttery snack that toddlers are fed as often as Graham Crackers here in the US.

Yeah! Definitely learned sthg new here :D

Yes, you're right. Hank's pronunciation of Latin is sadly horrible as well - "c" in "nocere" is not pronounced as "k" but as "ts"

Also 'Vacca' is pronounced 'Wacca' classically.

Or maybe really low pressure as well?

Silver Sparks Well in low pressure the water in your body will start to boil and you suffocate. But I've never heard what happens in high pressure...

He Ka high pressure I'm pretty sure nitrogen levels are too high or something. when a diver at deep depths comes up too fast the gas bubbles expand because of changing pressures and it screws up your body. that is just war i recall from chemistry class a year ago.

they're brainz explode

I could be wrong, but I think you sufficate because can't move your chest.

Or intramedullary nailing. Once a torture technique. Now a method to repair broken bones.

What a completely ignorant comment. Hundreds of people are exonerated every year that did absolutely nothing wrong. Our entire justice system is for profit. The poor can be arrested and held for YEARS without even being convicted. Look it up. Many people are in prison for smoking weed or tax evasion or other nonviolent crimes. Does one bad decision negate your entire humanity and your human rights? Seriously wtf

So you mean sub humans? That doesn't count sorry :/

Aginja Grigule What the fuck is wrong with your brain?

***** You do realise I'm joking, right? One should never read youtube comments with expectations of intelligibility and political correctness. Oh And I'm black...somehow that makes it all better...doesn't it? No? Ok.

***** I really dont want to talk about racism right now... how about... Hell doesnt exist, god doesnt exist 'n shiz. No, even more people arguing then... err.... CUPCAKES ARE BETTER THAN BROWNIES!

***** Cupcakes

misslaniepie19 I’m so used to seeing anime girl profile pictures that I almost thought that Meowth was one of those.

Chloe Burns w* wink wink

Elibrius Project *vink vink

lol that always annoyed me !

What is your condition.

+Sir Apple I have pulmonary hypertension

You good now? It’s been a year I’m just asking

Neo2266 okay this is scary

Jesus Christ Jesus I was only asking

It's more like 'some people are evil, and are clever enough to use research as an excuse." Given that, I'd not be surprised it it's always a problem.

yet i bet you want those same humans to control every aspect of the evil economy right?

Finally someone with a conscience.

Dolphins are also sadistic, are they too not respectable?

If Dolphins are doing things of this scale for pure pleasure without remorse. . then Yes. .they are not respectable beings also

It's Mengele. And the e at the end is not silent.

he stiched them together and shit

:)

Mat Donaldson there was no actual proof that Mengele did all of those "messed up" acts though, it's all anecdotes. He definitely did experimentation, but where is the proof it was inhumane?