Have you ever wondered if a severed head retains consciousness long enough to see what happened to it? Or whether your dog would run to fetch help, if you fell down a disused mineshaft? And what would happen if you were to give an elephant the largest ever single dose of LSD? The chances are that someone, somewhere has conducted a scientific experiment to find out...
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Elephants on acid
Dr Frankenstein, Moreau, Herbert West. These insane characters never really existed, right Well, no, they didn't. But the mad scientists in this book did. This is a look at science at its most strange, when scientists toe the line between rational exploration and gibbering lunacy with a scalpel. You'll be shocked, horrified and probably amused at what happens when madmen with a budget set out to test dubious theories, especially when they are proven right What happens when you give an Elephant an obscene amount of LSD Well it certainly ain't pretty. Reviewed by 19aw
QBD, 01/09/2014
