http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scientific-experiments-ever-conducted.html http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scienti...

http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scientific-experiments-ever-conducted.html http://www.cracked.com/article_16079_the-10-craziest-scienti... I believe no truer words have been spoken than the opening of the section on Midgley in that article - "Thomas Midgley Jr. Tried Really Hard to Destroy the World" The man was the template for a Mad Scientist and the closest thing to a super villain there has been. It's a bit of poetic justice he died as a result of one of his own contraptions. There is an episode of American Experience that has a part on the introduction of leaded gasoline that covers it better than the Cracked article, it's just not as funny. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/poisoners/