Russian Dog Experiment

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It is true. Though science in general doesn't really attempt to make the knowledge of this particular thing very mainstream due to ethical issues and more commonly the widespread fear and terror this sort of thing strikes into most people. There are many medical "experiments" and former practices like this that while scary were completely necessary to further advancing medical knowledge. Take Rosemary Kennedy's lobotomy for example. The way it is described on wikipedia, it's hard not to draw parallels with that scene from the Silence of the Lambs where Lecter dissects a living person's brain.

Note: The argument that wikipedia is editable by anybody ignores the fact that there are sources for this information given on every page. I would say archive.org is quite a legit site: http://www.archive.org/details/Experime1940