A very few scientists are lucky enough to make important discoveries in their careers.

A lot more of them work just as hard, but lightning never happens to strike their work and make it famous.

A very few will take their work especially personally, and go so far as to subject themselves to dangerous self-experimentation,

often because they're not willing to put others to that risk.

We're going to have a look at some of these right now your Skeptoid experience to the next level?

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You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

I can't believe they did that.

Human guinea pigs, number three.

Welcome to the show that separates fact from fiction, science from pseudoscience,

real history from fake history, and helps us all make better life decisions by knowing what's real and what's not.

Once again, we are going to open our history books and turn to the chapter on scientists who gave it

their all by experimenting on themselves,

sparing innocent test subjects,

and in most cases willing to subject none but themselves to the worst diseases

and torments out there.

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