Science or Sin? What happens when...

Science or Sin? What happens when neuroscience looses its mind

Explicit
The Plasticity Podcast by Santina Duarte
E5
Oct 27, 2025
45:00

Episode notes

Hi, it's me, Santina, the human who feeds and takes care of the hippo. It really is his world, and we are all so lucky to just be living in it.

This week, I discuss the dark history of neuroscience, a rabbit hole I recently fell down as I learned just how much has actually taken place at McGill. Since I will be discussing dark topics, viewer discretion is advised. We will be talking about horrific experiments like the Montreal experiment, which was a part of MKUltra, some Nazi medical experimentation, as well as some examples of flawed science, such as lobotomies and pseudoscience.

As always, you can follow me on Instagram and everywhere you can listen to podcasts at @theplasticitypodcast. I release new episodes weekly on Mondays at 7:00 am EST. Thank you so much for listening and i hope you enjoy this spooky episode as we gear up for halloween this week.

Keywords

Neuroscience
Academic Journey
Neural Networks
Graduate School
University
Science communication
science and tech
cognition
dark science
spooky
pseudoscience
experimentation