Iron Maiden? Excellent!!!

Dec 14, 2007 08:59

I was watching Modern Marvels on the History Channel last night. The episode was about torture devices throughout the ages and, as one could imagine, it was slightly gross and disturbing. Though, this one museum curator they had named Javier was pretty cute ( Read more... )

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rbsmith77 December 14 2007, 15:28:19 UTC
Yea, I was watching it abit of the show too.

On the hypothermia experiments, they were flawed. While the work was invalidated on the basis of subjects lacked consent in the first place, one of the theories of warm bath immersion treatment was technically correct. However, the Nazi doctors never came to that conclusion. Why? They refused to help their test subjects out of the ice cold water, and the majority of them died from heart attacks from exertion. In the real life scenario of a downed pilot in the North Sea, the people picking him up would go out of their way to help him. But in the end, their science was flawed because "They were Nazis!"

PS "I hate Illinois Nazis" - Jake

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