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Mad Scientists: The Not-So-Crazy Work of Amazing Scientists
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Drinking vomit. Breathing poisonous gasses. Creating two headed dogs. These mad acts aren’t just the stuff gross out stories and horror movies. They are real things that real scientists have done in the search for scientific answers.
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