Part 1 The Chernobyl Disaster Explained 1986
35 Years ago an event changed the way we look at nuclear energy.
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear reactor accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986 35 years ago.
The meltdown happened at Unit No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat, in the former USSR.
The accident started during a safety test on an RBMK-type nuclear reactor, and was one in a long list of disaster linked to this reactor type.
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The Dark Side of Science: The Bobo Doll Experiment 1963
The Bobo doll experiment is the name for a series of experiments performed by psychologist Albert Bandura to test his social learning theory.
Between 1961 and 1963, he studied the behaviour of children after they watched an adult model act aggressively towards a Bobo the clown doll.
The most famous version of the experiment measured the children's behaviour after seeing an adult model rewarded, punished, or experience no consequence for physically attacking the Bobo doll.
The results of the experiment would be used as the justification of the anti video game movement of the 1980 and 1990s.
The study was considered controversial but not as bad as the Baby Albert study.
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The Dark side of Science: The Lobotomy, the worst surgery in history?
A lobotomy, or leucotomy as it was originally known, was a form of psychosurgery, a neurosurgical treatment of a mental disorder that involves severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex.
The Barbaric surgery left many a shell of their former selves, and marks a dark point in mental health treatment.
Al though originally conceived in Portugal by Doctor Egas Moniz in the 1940s It would continue well into the 1960s under the hands of Walter freeman in the US.
The surgery would win Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses".
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