6 Stupid and Dangerous Things Scientists Did to Themselves

From poking their own eyes, to drinking a patient s vomit, some extremely passionate scientists have done pretty outrageous things to themselves in the name of science. We re conducting a survey of our viewers! If you have time, please give us feedback: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SciShowSurvey2017 Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Kelly Landrum Jones, Sam Lutfi, Kevin Knupp, Nicholas Smith, Inerri, D.A. Noe, alexander wadsworth, سلطان الخليفي, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Bella Nash, Charles Southerland, Bader AlGhamdi, James Harshaw, Patrick Merrithew, Patrick D. Ashmore, Candy, Tim Curwick, charles george, Saul, Mark Terrio-Cameron, Viraansh Bhanushali, Kevin Bealer, Philippe von Bergen, Chris Peters, Justin Lentz ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/NATP00004 http://aty.sdsu.edu/vision/others.html http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/exhibitions/Footprints_of_the_Lion/private_scholar.html http://eyewiki.aao.org/Solar_Retinopathy https://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/tcaw/13/i04/pdf/404chronicles.pdf http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/08/06/o-excellent-air-bag-humphry-davy-and-nitrous-oxide/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4439684/#sec1-3title http://alphahistory.com/pastpeculiar/1804-med-student-drinking-black-vomit/ https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/ext/mhl/2554015R/PDF/2554015R.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2441371/pdf/tacca00106-0113.pdf https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/demon-core-the-strange-death-of-louis-slotin http://nerdist.com/tickling-the-dragons-tail-the-story-of-the-demon-core/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/lethal-dose-ld.html http://mterasaki.us/etc/forssman.pdf http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/0003-4975(90)90272-8/pdf Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Werner_For%C3%9Fmann#/media/File:Werner_Forssmann.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Forssmann#/media/File:Werner_Forssmann_nobel.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Harry-K-Daghlian.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tickling_the_Dragons_Tail.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=demon+core&title=Special:Search&profile=images&fulltext=1&searchToken=7flitf5fa448whcbbjy4p2qjw#/media/File:Slotin_accident_mockup-11.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin#/media/File:Slotin_Los_Alamos.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:YellowFeverVirus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Sir+Humphrey+Davy&title=Special:Search&go=Go&searchToken=2vgthm6rdc5x1bfnp8933abft#/media/File:Sir_Humphrey_Davy_1849_RGNb10408769.09.tif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nitrous_oxide#/media/File:Nitrous-oxide-3D-balls.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Humphry_Davy,_Bt_by_Thomas_Phillips.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#/media/File:Sir_Isaac_Newton_by_Sir_Godfrey_Kneller,_Bt.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bodkin_MET_224402.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#/media/File:Isaac_Newton,_English_School,_1715-20.jpg