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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting book, I heard about ELEPHANTS ON ACID from the Kevin Smith podcast (SMODCAST). This is a great, quick/bathroom read that will that astound and captivate even the least scientific-minded individual. <br/><br/>In fact, I will go so far as to say that book is less about the experiments...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45341177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Boese presents a catalogue of truely bizarre experiments, giving a short essay on each and collecting them into themed chapters.  The book is intended to be humourous and it is, in places, but the technique used for the jokes hardly varies throughout and if read in just a few sessions, becomes repet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57851669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somewhat dry factual of many of the experiments done by man, to man or to animal. Some are unbelievable like the guy who drank vomitus to see if he would catch the disease. Anyhoo, mostly interesting, sometimes not. Did make me wonder about the intelligence or stupidity of the human race....even mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40447594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a collection of classic bizarre experiments, this book holds up well.  I had read about most of the included studies before, and it would have been nice to get a little more obscure research, but I'm sure most of this is new  to the general audience.  There were a few new ones for me, including a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63700898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[well I actually only made it about 3/4 of the way through this book.  I'll probably pick it up and finish it later.  It's basically a collection of true to life experiements conducted by reasearches from various educational institutions - many of them contemporary.  yes they actually did try to inje...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22267876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it. Unfortunately, because I'm weird and my interests are in the weird, I knew half of what was in there (especially the decapitations/two-headed dog since I wrote a paper on it and the social experiments because of Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect and because my husband is a Psych/Soc major). ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50077592">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that describes all sorts of weird experiments. I already encountered most of the experiments during my psychology study, so for me it was not very interesting. Although I should mention one remarkable experiment: they gave white and red wine to wine connoisseurs and asked them how they tasted...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72873254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pro's - Gave a very broad range of fascinating experiments, both old and new.  Great for whetting the appetite for finding out more about the experiments and provided the resources to do so. <br/><br/>Con's - In order to allow for a large range of experiments, the writing on each was very concise ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45821038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of strange &quot;science&quot; experiments, ranging from the morbid (how long can we keep a dog's head alive apart from its body? Answer: about three hours) to the amusing (can mothers pick out the smell of their baby's poop from a line up?). If you're squeamish about animal testing this book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42903626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unlikely but actual experiments. Some very good ones. Kept my attention the whole way through. Easy read. No one experiment was longer than two pages. Detailed enough information for me too. Great synopsis, felt like he never left anything important out. Covered a nice range of topics too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some very very very bizarre experiments are detailed in this quick read. The elephants on acid story is sad, though. <br/><br/>You will learn more about the strange capacities of the human mind then you thought you could ever imagine after reading this book. <br/><br/>There's a couple of potenti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12104955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting book.  I consists of a few paragraphs describing studies done from human behavior to animal studies.  What's good about this book is that you can start and stop anywhere in case you want to do another book.  One can burn out on this fact book after awhile.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up in Manchester airport and read it on the way to JFK. It's depressing - some of the experiments are whimsical and funny, but more often than not they chronicle how amazingly cruel we have been to other animals. The experiment that the book is named for involved an elephant named Tusk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64990608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just goes to show you have to take science with a grain of salt.  Hilarious.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An odd but fascinating look into the world of science and psychology.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining and thought-provoking, but found some of  the experiments disturbing]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a PETA type person, but after reading this book, I'm with 'em on animal testing.<br/>Some of the things these &quot;scientists&quot; do are truly warped.<br/><br/>“Hey Joe, lets cut a dogs head off and see if we can keep it alive.”<br/>“No, lets go one better and graft it to anothe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10570133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Elephants on Acid is very interesting, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes appalling.  I loved the entire thing.  The experiment descriptions are short enough that they don't get boring.  The author does a great job of describing the experiments and throwing in some of his own humour. Some of the exp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9265848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected this book to detail mostly fun and light-hearted experiments, but instead the author chose to focus a great deal on sad and/or disturbing research.  Many of the experiments described are super famous (Milgram shock experiment, Zimbardo prison experiment etc.) and will be familiar to anyon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16979581">more...</a>]]></body>
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