Season 2
13 episodes · Jul 14, 2012
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- S2E1
Lindbergh, Suicide Song, Living Organ Donor
Jul 14, 201243mCharles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.
- S2E2
Resurrection Row, Operation Brainwash, Rabid Roulette
Jul 21, 201243mRobert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.
- S2E3
Dr. Lobotomy, Voodoo Rx, Killed by Kindness
Jul 28, 201243mEgas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.
- S2E4
Amnesiac, Party Poopers, Risky Radiation
Aug 4, 201243mBrain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.
- S2E5
Positively Poisonous, Medusa's Heroin, Beauty and Brains
Aug 11, 201243mFritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.
- S2E6
Creative Evil, Curiosity Killed Dr. Katskee, Bat-Bomb
Aug 18, 201243mThe Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.
- S2E7
Tuskegee STD, Do You See What I See?, Cold War Cold Case
Aug 25, 201243mUS government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?
- S2E8
Agent Orange, Ben Franklin: Fraud Slayer, Price of Beauty
Nov 21, 201243mA chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.
- S2E9
Unabomber, Get the Lead Out, Salvation by Starvation
Nov 28, 201243mExamining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.
- S2E10
Remote Control Man, Cadavers for Sale, Einstein's Revenge
Dec 5, 201243mJose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.
- S2E11
Pavlovs Children, Raining Aliens, Glow Girls
Dec 12, 201243mPavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.
- S2E12
Theremin, The Monster Study, Roid Rage
Dec 19, 201243mA musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.
- S2E13
Magical Jet Propulsion, Missing Link Mystery, Typhoid Mary
Dec 26, 201243mOne man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.