Strange Scientific Studies.

[Ayn Marx]

What are some really strange government studies you've heard of for example.
John Lilly was a nueroscientist who made several breakthroughs in sensory deprivation. What he also did was an experiment involving a woman a dolphin lsd and eventually handjobs. The experiment was to see if the newly discovered high intelligence of dolphins made them capable of learning human speech. They had the woman live in a partially flooded house with the dolphin and try to teach it english. It didnt work. The dolphin feeling repressed and its only outlet being the woman made sexual advances and tried to court her in the usual dolphiny way. Well the researchers thought "hey maybe give the dolphin a handy and maybe it will become more receptive to their teachings" and it did. sort of it didnt learn anything but it looked like it was trying hard. So they said "lets give it lsd and see what happens" And you can guess how that went. The dolphin tripped and nothing was really learned. Thousands and thousands of tax dollars wasted on pleasuring a dolphin.

 

[Batman]

This might be the greatest forum post in the history of the internet.

 

[43ForceGems]

What are some really strange government studies you've heard of for example.
John Lilly was a nueroscientist who made several breakthroughs in sensory deprivation. What he also did was an experiment involving a woman a dolphin lsd and eventually handjobs. The experiment was to see if the newly discovered high intelligence of dolphins made them capable of learning human speech. They had the woman live in a partially flooded house with the dolphin and try to teach it english. It didnt work. The dolphin feeling repressed and its only outlet being the woman made sexual advances and tried to court her in the usual dolphiny way. Well the researchers thought "hey maybe give the dolphin a handy and maybe it will become more receptive to their teachings" and it did. sort of it didnt learn anything but it looked like it was trying hard. So they said "lets give it lsd and see what happens" And you can guess how that went. The dolphin tripped and nothing was really learned. Thousands and thousands of tax dollars wasted on pleasuring a dolphin.

You have won the internet, my friend XD

 

[Isaac]

Some scientists paid about 2 million dollars to make a shrimp run on a treadmill for like 2 days straight.

 

[Dimooshky]

Check out some of the Ig Nobel prize winners

In 2012, the Chemistry prize was 'for solving the puzzle of why, in certain houses in the town of Anderslöv, Sweden, people's hair turned green.'
Biology in 2011 for 'for discovering that certain kinds of beetle mate with certain kinds of Australian beer bottle.'
And Biology in 2010 'for scientifically documenting ******** in fruit bats.' <-----------

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners#2013

 

[penguinboy82]

There was once a study on why certain monkeys yelled while having sex, and scientists ran some tests on Barbary macaques. They found that the female yells to help encourage the man to be more vigorous, and without the yelling the males almost never ejaculated.

There was also a study on 104 men of how their foot size related to their ***** size, but it came back as no correlation.