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The normals | Episode 2

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By Sarah Crespi Verified, Kevin McLean, Laura Stark
| Science Magazine Verified
Last time on the podcast, we learned that in the 1950s, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to recruit many healthy volunteers for basic research. Two peace churches, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren, had an excess of healthy human volunteers. The “normals” recruited from these Anabaptist churches were surprisingly happy, even as they went through sometimes painful procedures.
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The normals | Episode 1

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By Sarah Crespi Verified, Kevin McLean, Laura Stark
| Science Magazine Verified
How do we know what’s normal in a person? In the early 1950s, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) set out to do something unprecedented. It wanted to start to study normal humans on a grand scale. It had pretty much everything in place: It had the building, it had recruited all of these amazing researchers—it was the healthy human bodies NIH didn’t have. When the healthy subjects arrived, experimenters tested LSD, sleep devrivation, rice-only diets, and more risky intervetions on them.
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Producing hunger

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By Georgii Bogdanov, Weifeng Lin, Carey L Metheringham, Laura Stark
| Science Magazine Verified
Skip to main content Main content starts here Access the full article View all access options to continue reading this article. Books 1 On Hunger Dana Simmons University of California Press, 2025. 234 pp. Information & Authors Information Published In Science Volume 388 | Issue 6754 26 June 2025 Copyright Copyright © 2025 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.
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