Dr. Anthony Fauci once argued that conducting experiments on contagious viruses to increase their potency was worth the risk, even if the work could accidentally lead to a pandemic, it was revealed ...

In 1798, Henry Cavendish looked through his telescope into a darkened room. Inside the room, large lead spheres hung next to small two-inch counterparts, gravity bringing them slowly together. From ...

The drive to create a superior race. Reprinted with permission from Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Yad Vashem). A series of brutal pseudo-scientific medical experiments were performed in Nazi camps ...

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