
Episodes (13)
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Ep 1
Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor
★6.0
2012-07-14•43m
Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.
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Ep 2
Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
★6.0
2012-07-21•43m
Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.
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Ep 3
Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness
★6.0
2012-07-28•43m
Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.
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Ep 4
Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation
★6.0
2012-08-04•43m
Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.
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Ep 5
Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains
★6.0
2012-08-11•43m
Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.
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Ep 6
Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb
★6.0
2012-08-18•43m
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.
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Ep 7
Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case
★6.0
2012-08-25•43m
US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?
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Ep 8
Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty
★6.0
2012-11-21•43m
A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.
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Ep 9
Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation
★6.0
2012-11-28•43m
Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.
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Ep 10
Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge
★6.0
2012-12-05•43m
Jose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.
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Ep 11
Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls
★6.0
2012-12-12•43m
Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.
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Ep 12
Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage
★6.0
2012-12-19•43m
A musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.
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Ep 13
Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
2012-12-26•43m
One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.