Thread 16722468

What are some of the most yolo acts ever committed in the name of science?

>>16722468 (OP)
Dr. Edwin Katskee famously exposed himself to lethal amounts of cocaine and scrawled notes of his experience on the walls of his laboratory as he was dying from his overdose.

Newton sticking needles in his eyes to prove his theories on optics

Dr. Marshall here infecting himself with H. Pylori to prove that it can cause stomach ulcers.

>>16723004
Thanks anon, I was pondering this.
Meanwhile I am pressing F for all the nineteenth-century chemists who tried to isolate Fluorine

>>16723004
>n=1 sample size
>”proving” anything

>>16722468 (OP)
grabbed my PI's ass to see how she would react

>>16723039
>PI
>she
OH NO NO NO

>>16723044
?

>>16723165
Women cannot lead, anon. She likely has a shabbospostdoc who leads the group for her, doesn’t she? Oh, and she’s the “hands-off” type of PI, isn’t she?

>>16723172
So what was Margaret Thatcher doing? Or Indira Gandhi?

>>16723037
>poster used the word "can"
>some retard on the internet thinks n=1 is insufficient
Hello. Please consider the meaning inherent in words when posting using them.

>>16723173
>Margaret Thatcher
Being a PM. The English PM is a representative of the Parliament. It's not at all like a president. She does what the Parliament tells her to do and it's a primes inter pares role. The Parliament can remove the PM at any moment.
>Indira Gandhi
I don't have nearly enough knowledge of Indian politics to give an informed opinion.

>>16723184
Elizabeth I, then? Hatshepsut? Cleopatra? Wu Zetian? Himiko? Jadwiga? Catherine the Great?

>>16723183
Can implies a causal relation. Correlation does not equal causation, but that’s the best we can do. Going
>I will prove that gummy bears can cause a violent death
and then crashing into a wall at 200km/h after eating a gummy bear isn’t saying much.

>>16723218
>names monarchs
You do know that monarchs had a royal court, right? And that even little children would technically “rule” a country back in the day.

>>16723225
And the active political decisions that several of them are known for? Look, I won't deny that men have, on average, more proclivity to take active leadership than women, but both genders are on a continuum in that regard, and the far right tail of the female distribution also exists even if it's significantly smaller. There is no statement that is true of all four billion women other than "is female", and vice versa for men.

>>16723224
So you're saying we should be seriously considering the possibility that developing ulcers immediately after drinking the yucky bacteria juice was a complete coincidence?

>>16722468 (OP)
the bro who cut his own balls open to intentionally infect himself with syphilis

>>16722468 (OP)
the kite experiment

>>16722468 (OP)
>science jackass is real
not sure how I feel about it

>>16723253
Yes.

Gregor Mendel inventing genetics, when he knew he was going to be relentlessly attacked by Satanists.

>>16723419
>science jackass
meme potential

>>16723173
>Margaret Thatcher
She destroyed her nation, proving the other guys point.

>Werner Theodor Otto Forßmann (Forssmann in English; German pronunciation: [ˈvɛʁnɐ ˈfɔʁsˌman] ; 29 August 1904 – 1 June 1979) was a German researcher and physician from Germany who shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine (with Andre Frederic Cournand and Dickinson W. Richards) for developing a procedure that allowed cardiac catheterization. In 1929, he put himself under local anesthesia and inserted a catheter into a vein of his arm. Not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein, he put his life at risk. Forssmann was nevertheless successful; he safely passed the catheter into his heart.
Literally just drugged himself and jammed a tube in his heart at 25 to prove it could be done. And the best part is it turned out to be useful long term and not actually destructive or only temporarily useful.

>>16723435
I didn't say she was a good leader, merely that she was engaged in the act of leadership, i.e. she actively took charge and did things, rather than just standing by and letting other people do things. Politically I disagree with her strongly, but I have a certain amount of grudging respect for her as a person that she had the resolve and bloody-mindedness necessary to get ahead as a woman in a man's world.

>>16723037
>think dos don't exist
>see a dog
>LMAO N=1 THIS PROVES NOTHING YOU STILL CAN'T KNOW IF DOGS EXIST
k

>>16725662
If there were no previous evidence of dogs existing, I'd reserve at least some possibility for what I saw being merely a weird wolf.

>>16723218
No leaders there. Monarchs can delegate all the time so they only need to be able to pick competent men to do the job.
A true leader would be Charles XII of Sweden.

>>16726298
Plenty of them are known to have made active decisions.

>>16723039
I would go feral if my PI was a cute lady

>>16723039
made me smirk

stephen hawking went to an island for some experimental study on minor stars.

sniff testing my chroloform33eefguhnjvgkmfg,h

>>16726861
How? He was in a wheelchair.

>>16727022
by plane

>>16727026
I'm not questioning how he got there, I'm questioning what sort of "experimental study" he was supposed to have engaged in without the use of most of his body.

For sure the greatest yolo moment in science was the atomic bomb. They really didnt know for sure if the chain reaction would stop or just keep going and burn out our atmosphere..
Same situation now with ai, all involved devs on this frontier say theres a substantial risk of ai subjugating humans or even ending them.. but they just keep going

>>16727031
i think he did some work on boundary problems of black holes afterwards. he probably got some very close visual input for inspiration on that island.

I'm guessing no one posted the demon core yet because it's too obvious
The experiment that resulted in Chernobyl was a retarded yolo moment too(the experiment idea itself, I'm not referring to the staff incompetence and design failure here) when you read into it
Anyway,
The guy who invented spinal anesthesia and his assistant tried it out on themselves by injecting cocaine(which resulted in debilitating headaches for several days afterwards) into the subarachnoid space and tested the anesthesia level by beating on the legs and nutsack with a hammer and burning both with cigars(it worked)

>>16723173
Destroying their respective countries

>>16727407
Like I said, I didn't say they were good leaders, merely that they were in fact leaders, i.e. they actively took charge and made decisions, rather than merely standing back and letting others make them. Your contention (assuming you're the same anon) was not that no woman can be a good leader but that no woman can be a leader, period; don't move the goalposts.

>>16722468 (OP)
>be me, Elon Musk

>>16722468 (OP)
Anything in the middle agea that involved early manned gliders.
The retard that injected himself with the insulin he harvested from dogs.
And I'm guessing anything that involved flourine reactions.

>>16728247
nice bbq Elon

>>16722468 (OP)
Publishing/producing anything that might empower some less refined person to take enhanced unwise actions at some point in the future.
A lot of science is guilty and the rest is pending.
Grug deserves sticks and stones.