Human Product 12
True Weird Stuff
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4.9 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Today's True Weird Stuff - Human Product 12
Society has a long history of conducting terrible experiments on humans, often without their knowledge or consent. In 1945, Ebenezer Cade was in a car accident and needed medical attention, but doctors injected an unknown substance into him just to see what would happen. It turns out he was a guinea pig for their tests on the effects of radiation; he was the first of 18 men, women, and children who were secretly injected with plutonium.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey true weirdos, at the end of this episode, stick around if you want for a little bonus content and conversation. |
| 0:09.1 | You're on your way to work and you banged up pretty good. In the ER, they find that your right knee is fractured. |
| 0:18.2 | Your left femur is broken. So is your right arm. Bad as it is, |
| 0:22.7 | you're lucky. Well, you were lucky. Kind of. What you don't know is that your luck completely ran out |
| 0:30.8 | the moment that car slammed into you. Never mind that you're in the hospital. Your broken bones |
| 0:37.1 | won't be treated, not for weeks. |
| 0:39.6 | You don't know that a doctor sees you lying there on that gurney and decides, |
| 0:44.5 | this one, this one is ideal. |
| 0:49.2 | You don't know what an excellent candidate you are for a little experiment. |
| 0:55.3 | No one will tell you what's about to happen. |
| 0:57.6 | Consent? Forget it. |
| 0:59.9 | No one will seek your consent. |
| 1:02.2 | Not ever. |
| 1:04.2 | Congratulations, I guess. |
| 1:06.6 | You just became Human Product 12. |
| 1:11.3 | And they got a small beam of light against the mirror. |
| 1:31.2 | True, weird stuff. |
| 1:38.3 | Atomic radiations of any kind may prove damaging to human beings. |
| 1:44.4 | So techniques of protecting those who work with such radiations have had to be perfected. |
| 1:52.8 | Special equipment and different kinds of protective barriers are some of the measures that have been adopted to safeguard humans. Inventing instruments to detect radiations and discovering |
| 1:59.9 | material that will block and stop radiation require |
| 2:03.7 | extensive tests. That's from an instructional film produced in the 1950s by Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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