"Just Following Orders"!

During my studies along time ago I read of British medical students ( in the 1940´s when you could experiment a bit more with students...) who volunteered in an experiment where they put a pressure cuff around your neck and instantly could stop the blood flow to your head. It was mentioned that it took up to 5 seconds to lose consciousness...

EEEEKKK! Who wants to play that game?

 

Kai, they still do fun stuff like that, my mate started at med school last year. When they were working on the respiratory system they hitched all the students one by one up to a device that recycled the air they breathed, so they only inhaled what they had just exhaled. The idea was to show them that despite the fact air is 19% oxygen when you inhale it and still holds 16% oxygen when you exhale, this is not enough to survive on. Obviously they all needed this to be explained again when they regained conciousness...

 

This can be avoided if you use the neat elephant stepping on the head trick!

This thread sure is going off on a weird tangent!

Za, listening to Talking Heads

[ 30. June 2004, 09:11 AM: Message edited by: Za Rodina ]

 

Now I see what he means by "crazy neurosurgeon"…

 

Now I see what he means by "crazy neurosurgeon"…

 

I think about the people involved-Lyndie England and her her fiancee, Charles Groner live in an area in the South where the KKK preaches openly. They would have been fed on this-plus they wouldv'e heard about small incidents of American soldiers being mutilated.
There is no excuse for their actions, but their psyches wouldv'e been shattered, and without remorse wouldv'e committed these acts.

England said that they committed these acts to "soften up" the prisoners for interrogation which I believe is an age-old practice...