Very entertaining book. If you enjoy the realm of the odd, you will like this book. ( )

A collection of mad, foolhardy and gross scientific advancements that have been made by scientists that are on the very edge of the scientific community.

Covers people who have eaten all manner of things, have poisoned themselves, have tried to tech chimp to become low IQ worker and pushed their own bodies to the limits of what they could do.

The chapter on electricity is fascinating, as this was an age of discovery. The psychology chapter has been covered in greater detail in other books, but fits well in here. Some of the things that scientists and the military industrial complex wanted to do with nuclear bombs is quiet scary. The final chapter is gross. ( )

The first few chapters were vaguely interesting, but the final chapter, on self experimentation was terrible. ( )

I chose to read this because I read Elephants on Acid, also by the same author. On vacation in WDW I saw a teen boy reading a book, I heard his accent and knew he was British. From the look of the book I guessed it might have been written by Boese: I was right. ( )