Shock Doc

True Weird Stuff

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Science, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Today's True Weird Stuff - Shock Doc

In the 1950's, the CIA launched a program aimed at developing methods for interrogating and controlling human behavior; part of the program involved funding tests on children. Dr. Lauretta Bender at Bellevue Hospital would conduct electroshock therapy on kids as young as three years old to treat childhood schizophrenia. The CIA called it "Project Artichoke."

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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.
0:09.0	Even we admit that something sound too crazy, just way too far-fetched to be true.
0:15.5	Like in what world does a respected doctor, a pioneer in her field, somehow end up treating children like
0:23.9	laboratory mice, conducting cruel experiments on their brains and bodies, experiments that left
0:31.7	many of those kids with lasting irrevocable damage. And when I tell you that the CIA sponsored some of this,
0:41.4	under a little CIA operation called Project Artichoke,
0:46.6	sure sounds like tinfoil hat crazy time, doesn't it?
0:50.4	If only it was, but it's a true story.
0:53.9	I'll tell it to you now.
0:55.8	But first, I need you to open wide and bite down on this rubber block.
1:02.0	There you go.
1:03.2	Just like that.
1:05.0	Stop making such a bust.
1:07.0	Now hold still.
1:13.0	And they got a small beam of light against the mirror.
1:17.1	Role and grow.
1:18.7	The real, right.
1:20.1	I'm not, no, no.
1:22.9	No.
1:23.3	No.
1:24.2	No.
1:26.3	I'm going to get a lot. Ha, ha, ha. True weird stuff.
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