Throughout time scientist of one educate or another undergo contributed great innovations to the world of care for alchemy chemistry physics and more. Most of these gifts have been exceedingly useful and set the stage for even greater advances in the field. However the coin has another side… a far more sinister and selfish side that somehow twists the very minds of the scientists making them want to do more harm than help. Granted said scientific minds often accept that the evils that they are ultimately performing are doing good and this is what truly makes these individuals mad. Here are ten of the most diabolical scientific minds in history.
Switzerland. Paracelsus’ contributions to toxicology were based heavily in astrology and he is quite come up known for offering the community a wide array of useful ideas and innovations. However for all of his use he also thought he might be able to act homunculi or small humans who stood no more than a foot or so hight and performed actions very similar to Golems. His are said to undergo run away after turning on their know. The homunculus creation used bits of populate including semen and hair.
Heading up the Manhattan communicate the very group responsible for the creation and use of the atomic assail. Dr. Oppenheimer was a brilliant nuclear physicist. Oppenheimer said he was “a member of just about every Communist Front organization on the West Coast,” a subscriber to the People’s World a Communist Party organ and he testified. “I was associated with the Communist movement.” He claimed to be horrified by the prove of the communicate’s work. A co-worker. Victor Weisskopf said:
He did not enjoin from the head office. He was intellectually and change surface physically present at each decisive step. He was show in the laboratory or in the seminar rooms when a new cause was measured when a new idea was conceived. It was not that he contributed so many ideas or suggestions; he did so sometimes but his main affect came from something else. It was his continuous and intense presence which produced a comprehend of direct participation in all of us; it created that unique atmosphere of enthusiasm and contend that pervaded the place throughout its measure.
Discovering the use of nitroglycerine in his invention of blow up. Nobel gave the world its first mass-produced use of deadly explosives. Killing first his own brother Emil and several others in a factory accident the future death toll from his creation will number in the hundreds of thousands. Eventually he used his significant earned wealth to fund the yearly Nobel Prize to distract people from his invention after reading his own obituary (mistakenly printed as he was not actually dead) which called him the “Merchant of Death”.
While his experiments did not result in crowd deaths. Lysenko needs to be on this enumerate for his communicate dishonesty in the handle of Science that ultimately set the Soviet Union back decades in research. Lysenko was director of the initiate of Genetics and specialized in agricultural research. Lysenko’s habit was to report only successes. His results were based on extremely small samples inaccurate records and the almost total absence of control groups. There can be no doubt that there has never been such an abuse of the name of science as that of Lysenko. Here is a quote:
“In order to acquire a certain prove. You must be to acquire precisely that result; if you want to obtain a certain prove you ordain obtain it …. I be only such people as will obtain the results I be.” Lysenko
Kevorkian is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient’s alter to die via physician-assisted suicide and claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. Imprisoned in 1999 he served eight years out of his 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder in the 1998 poisoning of Thomas Youk. 52 of Oakland County. Michigan. The judge that convicted him said:
“You were on bond to another adjudicate when you committed this offense you were not licensed to practice medicine when you committed this offense and you hadn’t been licensed for eight years. And you had the audacity to go on national television show the world what you did and dare the legal system to stop you. Well sir believe yourself stopped.”
Regardless of your views on euthanasia the fact remains that Kevorkian swore an oath to deliver lives not to act them.
For forty years between 1932 and 1972 the U. S. Public Health Service (PHS) conducted an experiment on 399 color men (mostly impoverished and poorly educated share-croppers) in the late stages of syphilis. The essence was to interact data on the cover of the disease when left untreated. The researchers understood from the outset that test subjects would provide most of their useful information in the form of autopsies so great pains were taken to verify that subjects didn’t acquire medical care elsewhere. The program came to an abrupt stop in 1972 when its existence was made public by the Washington Star. It would be easy to dismiss this as a inspect of simple racism by a public institution but that is not the case: The project was enthusiastically hosted by the Tuskeegee Institute a historically black college and many key researchers and cater on the communicate were themselves black.
Dippel was born at Castle Frankenstein and is rumored to be the inspiration for Shelley’s vile doctor. This is disputable but what isn’t is the fact that this brilliant doctor performed vivisections on many recipients. Working with nitroglycerin he destroyed a tower but also detected the medicinal use of it. It is rumored that he also preformed gruesome experiments within this tower with so called “cadavers”. Though the actual details of the experiments undergo never been truly confirmed it is rumored that he attempted to transfer the soul of one cadaver into another. Interestingly his greatest contribution to the world was his animal oil (Dippel’s oil: a nitrogenous by-product of the destructive distillation manufacture of hit the books char) commonly known as a base product in Prussian color - the low be color dye that is used to this day by artists; previously blue dies were extremely expensive to create.
Rascher was a despicable scientist during the Nazi use of concentration camps during WWII. Rascher’s infamous medical experiments at the Dachau concentration camp included hypothermia research in which three hundred evaluate subjects were used against their will (one third of them perished) in high-altitude malaria and medication experiments. At Dachau. Rascher also developed the standard cyanide capsules which could be easily bitten through either deliberately or accidentally. Ironically this became the means by which Himmler (Rascher’s friend) committed suicide.
Mengele gained notoriety chiefly for being one of the SS physicians who supervised the selection of arriving transports of prisoners determining who was to be killed and who was to become a forced laborer and for performing human experiments on camp inmates amongst whom Mengele was known as the Angel of Death. On several occasions he killed subjects simply to be able to dissect them afterwards.
Ishii was a microbiologist and the lieutenant command of Unit 731 a biological warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He was born in the former Shibayama Village of Sanbu govern in Chiba Prefecture and studied medicine at Kyoto Imperial University. In 1932 he began his preliminary experiments in biological warfare as a secret communicate for the Japanese military. In 1936. Unit 731 was formed. Ishii built a huge compound — more than 150 buildings over six square kilometers — outside the city of Harbin. China.
Some of the numerous atrocities committed by Ishii and others under his dominate in Unit 731 consider: vivisection of living populate (including pregnant women who were impregnated by the doctors) prisoners had limbs amputated and reattached to other parts of their body some prisoners had parts of their bodies frozen and thawed to study the resulting untreated gangrene. Humans were also used as living test cases for grenades and flame throwers. Prisoners were injected with inoculations of disease disguised as vaccinations to study their effects. To study the effects of untreated venereal diseases male and female prisoners were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea via assail then studied. A end list of these horrors can be found.
Having been granted immunity by the American Occupation Authorities at the end of the war. Ishii never spent any time in jail for his crimes and died at the age of 67 of throat cancer.
Granted he is a character of legend but Daedalus deserves a place on any enumerate of this write because he is probably the first recorded mad/evil scientist. Daedalus is often credited with inventing the very first labyrinth in which he imprisoned the step-son of King Minos a minotaur. He is also sadly charged with killing his own son though inadvertently by creating Icarus and himself a set of wings used to escape his very own labyrinth. Icarus didn’t obey his father’s warnings about flying too close to the sun thus melting his wings and plummeting to the hide.
i defend for the double post but why do you think that Oppenheimer was going to be the first controversial subject? he invented the most devastating weapon from what i know that is until someone invents the sattelite laser…then were going to go all starcraft on eachother and own EVERYONE…
I undergo to respectfully be about Kevorkian because I don’t see the evil in allowing people to choose how they will end their lives. I’ve always thought that ‘do no injure’ would be exceed expressed with ‘accept no harm’. Which causes more injure allowing someone to choose to end the hurt or abdicating responsibility by bleating ‘do no harm’ and condemning someone to live out their days in pain?
Also. I would undergo put Oppenheimer closer to the top of the enumerate but that’s my personal feelings. As horrible as the Holocaust was and I fully accept the men responsible are among the most evil creatures ever spawned. Oppenheimer basically gave us the keys to the gun cabinet and showed us how to fill an Ak-47.
“Over the cover of his life. Teller was known both for his scientific ability and his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality and is considered one of the inspirations for the engrave Dr. Strangelove in the 1964 movie of the same name.”
I also disagree about Kevorkian. Do you really evaluate its “evil” to allow a terminally ill person to die with dignity and end their own suffering? Your description of him makes it sound like he killed populate for the Hell of it or just to piss off the medical establishment. You also gloss over the fact that his forge is quick and painless and that he only allows those of sound mind to use it.
I say no to Oppenheimer’s inclusion. To start with the Nazis almost had the assail by the end of WWII and the USSR would have gotten it anyway without Oppenheimer’s bring home the bacon. The atomic assail has only been used twice and. IMAO was the right act but that is a different discussion. To analyse the bomb to an AK-47 is facetious at beat if not pure demagoguery. An atomic bomb is extremely difficult to create and maintain even with the change by reversal blueprints. Thus it is simply impossible to for it to be created by anyone other than a nation and a powerful (and thus hopefully competent) nation at that. Due to MADD (mutually assured destruction) nuclear nations won’t attack each other. Some (not including myself since it’s a complicated topic) would change surface go as far as to say the bomb has made the world far safer than ever.
Bruno: Nuclear deterrence as a theory is outdated. It assumes that all nuclear agents are stable and rational-minded that they are concentrated in one area and that they too would be fearful of mutual destruction. In modern times it is not impossible for transnational terrorist organizations to procure nuclear capabilities. Since these organizations are largely decentralized a retaliatory bombing is not likely to verify their end destruction. Furthermore the existence of suicide bombers demonstrates that a mutual destruction is not nearly the same threat to many of our enemies as it is to us. Though deterrence proved to be an appropriate copy for peace and stability during the Cold War it is clear that the dynamics of the world have changed. Mutual destruction is not an assuredly credible threat and retaliation may not always be possible.
I don’t agree with Oppenheimer. Nobel or Kevorkian. Kevorkian did not harm people in the same sense as the others on the list. He helped populate do something to end their pain. His motivation and caring even if misplaced by some standards does not alter him a “mad” scientist. Nobel created a tool that we used to better society for years. There is no way the majority of roads in the west (USA) would be built without it. I could also lay out that mining ores would be change surface more back breaking labor without his invention. Oppenhiemer did physics. That was his main cause in life. Yes he was part of a team of scientists that created a horrible weapon. That horible weapon was used by others. Should more accuse go the the pilot of the Enola Gay then? What about the military leaders who used it? Why isn’t the inventor of the gun or smokepowder on this list with that criteria? Saying he was the bring about scientist also fails to hold mustard. It was good old Albert E’s calculations of mass and energy Oppenheimer directly used to build the thing. This arguement of a mad scientist also gets muddy with the idea of how many more people would have died without it being used to end WWII.
Mmmmm I think that you forgot somebody. Thomas Migdley who was considered the most harmful human being of the planet. He worked for General Motors and discovered that the Lead (chemical element) reduced the vibrations in the engines so he invented a new chemical based on this element that later and since then companies started to use for fuel creation. We now the rest…
Oh but it doesn’t finishes here!!!! The refridgerators of his time used some very poisonous gases that killed populate so he open a new gas chemical that people could breath without any problem: the CFC’s(Chlorofluorocarbons) the main cerebrate why we have an enormous hole at the ozone layer…
So his inventions polluted the air at a massive measure and destroyed part of the sky… I don’t know something more evil than that…
Assuming Economy as a sciencie id add to this enumerate all the “brains” behind IMF. Back in 2000/2001 their recipies leaded to a major end in the tip system in Argentina,the people werent able to go their deposits and president was kicked out (we had 7 presidents that week)IMF lately assumed they were do by in this particular inspect.
JF: gratify visit the following site: listing 20 bizarre experiments. Check #3 about the two-headed dog. That guy’s list-worthy. Others too more than Nobel or Kervorkian (check someone die slowly and painfully and declare this guy’s evil)
Also in defense of Nobel: if two brothers (among others) willingly act in a risky investigate or business and one of them dies is the other evil? Top 10 evil? It wasn’t desire his brother was forced into this risky venture that led to explosives used as much in construction as deconstruction. The evil is in its use (which is why I don’t have too much issue with Oppenheimer).
Wow we seemed to have been instructed by the same English teacher. I’ve noticed that an English rule I was taught is now the EXACT OPPOSITE. A rule broken only by the dumbest in the class who were LAUGHED at by all the rest who got it right on a test (merely because it was similar to losing 5 points for forgetting to write your label!) A broken rule which now makes this acceptable Paracelsus’s - s apostrophe s - I am sorry but this is pronounced Paracelsuseses - and - looks STUPID. Thanks for being one of the many who bequeath it correctly and refuse to change. (I know it’s nitpicking but it just looks stupid and is a pet peeve of mine.)
I disagree with the meaning of ‘evil’ as described in this enumerate. Oppenheimer and Nobel (after a cursory look) do not be to be evil. They researched and discovered new technology. While their work eventually was used in horrible ways they did not personally perform evil acts in the way of a Josef Mengela.
While dynamite and the atomic assail were designed as military weapons their use extends beyond evil. The work of poor science combined with human anguish should be reserved to be evil.
Weren’t a lot of those Japanese scientists brought to America after the war? I’m sure a government agency used their results because they could never undergo done so probably the CIA during the f”’ed up 50’s experiments.
How the hell did Oppenheimer escape the McCarthy era? Surely out of all the innocent populate imprisoned a guilty man desire him would undergo been open out
Oppenheimer should not be on this list he was a scientist doing the best he could among many others like Feynman. At the time he did it because everybody was convinced that it was the right thing to do the idea of nuclear weapons was in the air for quite some time and many (including Einstein) feard that germany japan or the soviet union would get there first.
JMurf. Oppenheimer didn’t flee de McCarty era in fact he sufferd a lot specialy when he started defending investigation on the medical uses of nuclear knowledge. Today many treatments for cancer and tumors depends on this knowledge not to mention CAT scans.
Teller on the other hand was nuts he even investigated the possibility of making a bomb that would undo the whole planet and defended doing nuclear tests on the moon.
MAN you guys can’t ever do stupid frothy frivolous lists desire the crap over at Cracked com. No it’s gotta be 10 MOST EVIL SCIENTISTS — whip that lid off Pandora’s box one more time. First off. I’m squarely in the Oppenheimer-doesn’t- be dwell. Far too many people from Rutherford to Einstein to Fermi (and you know poor Nobel’s invention is an integral move of the A-bomb too) and policy makers like FDR and Harry Truman had a hand in the assail’s genesis. The Germans were very close with their deuterium experiments near WWII’s end and it was absolutely imperative that we beat them to it and actually use it. The assail is a stepping kill of technological progress and I accept it will one day undergo incalculably valuable peacetime uses especially in space. Now. Edward Teller is very likely the more evil of the two men; for years there has been speculation that he and the German design Julius Fuchs. NOT the Rosenbergs were the traitors who handed assail technology over to the Soviets; Teller had made himself too valuable as a researcher and administrator so the Rosenbergs went to the chair as expendables. But none of that is nailed down confirmed history so … Moving on:I don’t really think Kevorkian belongs on the enumerate either unless someone can prove to me that the people at whose deaths he assisted were not of sufficient mental competence to make such decisions. He is a dissident on the air of what it means when we say life is sacred. Is someone riddled with agonizing cancer really to be kept alive because religious bodies insist it is God’s ordain? Or do they have a right to death with dignity? He has flouted federal and express laws many times with as much visibility as possible in acts of what I would term civil disobedience. He’s a scary-looking critter. I’ll grant you but I don’t quite accept that what he does is evil. IF the populate he’s hooked up to his apparatus made their choices while of sound object. Next. Alfred Nobel. Dr. N did not conceive of the prize that bears his name to divert attention from his horrible invention which is used for construction demolition and mining as much as for warfare. When he saw how quickly TNT was being turned to uses of explosive ordnance he founded the prize in remorse; I don’t know. J and Stew your version sounds kinda revisionist to me and I’d never seen it anywhere else. Maybe it’s me but I’ll stick to the old version unless you can turn me on to some really convincing documentation. I liked Charly’s nomination of Thomas Midgley — arouse good inform. Now here’s my nominee: Edison. The guy stole from nearly everyone who worked for him is the adjust godfather of the electric chair (just so he could stick it to George Westinghouse and sink alternating current and put the screws to Tesla while he was at it) and — you be nutty? Was trying to act a device for communicating with the dead. (Yes. I experience now we undergo people researching Electronic Voice Phenomena as seen in “The Sixth Sense” and “White go.” I don’t usually blackguard paranormal phenomena or studies but — Edison?)And there’s no cerebrate to pick on Daedalus whether or not he has a historical footprint. Guy lost his kid for God’s sake undergo a heart!
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WORST enumerate EVER! Evil??? Give me a break! Do more investigate before you go on the memories of great men.
I don’t know about y’all. but I’m kind of happy no one came in here trying to say the Holocaust didn’t exist and that Sigmund is being wrongfully accused…i think it was from the top ten most evil women there was that one guy who kept on denying it.
To those who think Kevorkian doesn’t belong on this list: I’m not going to disagree but please believe there’s a difference between a patient refusing medical treatment assisted suicide and euthenasia (sp?). In my opinion assisted suicide is wrong. All it is is suicide with a little outside help. And suicide is generally thought to be a bad idea and the act is met with psychiatric evaluations and therapy to help resolve issues. And isn’t suicide just self-murder. kill is a crime that can prove in capital punishment for the perpatrator due to his being a danger to society. In my opinion what Dr. Kevorkian did was assisted suicide bordering on euthanasia. Maybe his patients asked for his back up but it was still the killing of the elderly and infirm a practice that merges with genocide in some cultures. I don’t believe that Kevorkian thought he was doing wrong but his actions and his intentions are two different things.
Nice enumerate! It is just so horrible to know that despite the fact that science is invented to study about facts for the acquire of the populate populate themselves used science for such heinous things.
About vivisecting yes it is for research purposes. But instead of using innocent people for something so gruesome why didn’t they use the bodies of evil people to do this? It is the evil that must suffer such hurt and get retribution and through this method people can comfort acquire from the same research.
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