The Vipeholm studies (1945) were a series of human experiments done on the intellectually disabled in lund Sweden. They tried to find out if suger affected teeth decay and the study were funded by the swedish candy industry. Svenn violated multiple medical ethics and decided to cover up the results. They ended up being published in 1953.
Casual reminder that Sweden had eugenics program up to the 1975 and was forcibly sterilizing the “undesirable” members of society.
You are not a real country if your government didn’t do some kind of MKUltra program.
Stones and glass houses, Preben…
You think this don’t happen regularly?
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Questionable research is going on everywhere even in modern day Western Europe. Few of my colleagues from doctorate program who graduated with me work with Philip Morris here in Zurich while I decided to sell my soul to Dane’s for ozempic money..
At least we got lördagsgodis from it
When you freeze a hand it gets frostbite. Unit 69 from the japanes, be like.
I grew up a few KMs from this place, it’s history is very interesting. For Swedes I highly recommend the P3 documentary on the subject(not sure if it exists in English), it’s one of the best, in a scary sort of way. Whenever people think of scientists experimenting in mental instiutions, this is one of the go-to examples. The studies advanced dental hygiene a lot, they made groundbreaking discoveries on what sugar does to the teeth and it advanced dental more than any other study in history, it made Sweden the world leader on the subject. The after effects of the study cut karies in the general population by a huge percentage. Sweden launched initiatives across the public like brushing teeth every day, using flouride, avoiding sugar and flossing which had huge effects on the public, and was adapted across the world.
They did a lot of fucked up things to the patients, true depravity. They invented a toffee that was as sticky as humanly possible so it would be stuck in the patient teeth and fed it too them at all hours of the day. The patients teeth literally rotted away completely within months from fully healthy. I got Nazi hyperthermia experiment vibes learning about it, maybe not at the same level, but at least in the same ballpark.
Interestingly a lot of the scientists who conducted the experiments would still motivate it morally when interviewed in the 2010’s. Listening to the doctors talk about what they did reminds me of this scene in The Bourne Legacy where the hot doctor talks excitedly about her groundbreaking research;
>In 1942, 99.9 percent of Sweden’s enlisted conscripts had caries in their teeth. Big holes, all the way to the pulp. Swedes’ dental health is lousy. The government is therefore asking the Medical Board to investigate, and the perfect experimental station can be found in Lund, at Vipeholm’s hospital for “difficult care intractable mental retardation”. There is final storage for the worst mentally ill in the country, and you have full control over what they eat. For two years, the patients are fed enormous amounts of sugar. The research puts Sweden on the international research map, and the result was Saturday candy and fewer cavities in the teeth for the Swedish population. But it was the patients at Vipeholm who had to pay the price.
Sadly I don’t think it exists in English, someone should translate all our P3 documentaries, a lot of them are pieces of art with how well made they are.
Possibly the darkest chapter in our modern history, even more than the sterilization programs. Recently came out a film based on it, with Eng subtitles avalaible. Literally make you cry.
Before the Nordics became this bastion of progressivism they were very much into this kind of stuff, especially eugenetics which explains why those devils are so good looking.
In all fairness this is mild for the type of human experiments that were going on during this period. Sweden need to up their being a cruel bastard game.
Still taught in dental school to this day.
Don’t be silly, they weren’t mentally capable of complaining.
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The Vipeholm studies (1945) were a series of human experiments done on the intellectually disabled in lund Sweden. They tried to find out if suger affected teeth decay and the study were funded by the swedish candy industry. Svenn violated multiple medical ethics and decided to cover up the results. They ended up being published in 1953.
Casual reminder that Sweden had eugenics program up to the 1975 and was forcibly sterilizing the “undesirable” members of society.
You are not a real country if your government didn’t do some kind of MKUltra program.
Stones and glass houses, Preben…
You think this don’t happen regularly?
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Questionable research is going on everywhere even in modern day Western Europe. Few of my colleagues from doctorate program who graduated with me work with Philip Morris here in Zurich while I decided to sell my soul to Dane’s for ozempic money..
At least we got lördagsgodis from it
When you freeze a hand it gets frostbite. Unit 69 from the japanes, be like.
I grew up a few KMs from this place, it’s history is very interesting. For Swedes I highly recommend the P3 documentary on the subject(not sure if it exists in English), it’s one of the best, in a scary sort of way. Whenever people think of scientists experimenting in mental instiutions, this is one of the go-to examples. The studies advanced dental hygiene a lot, they made groundbreaking discoveries on what sugar does to the teeth and it advanced dental more than any other study in history, it made Sweden the world leader on the subject. The after effects of the study cut karies in the general population by a huge percentage. Sweden launched initiatives across the public like brushing teeth every day, using flouride, avoiding sugar and flossing which had huge effects on the public, and was adapted across the world.
They did a lot of fucked up things to the patients, true depravity. They invented a toffee that was as sticky as humanly possible so it would be stuck in the patient teeth and fed it too them at all hours of the day. The patients teeth literally rotted away completely within months from fully healthy. I got Nazi hyperthermia experiment vibes learning about it, maybe not at the same level, but at least in the same ballpark.
Interestingly a lot of the scientists who conducted the experiments would still motivate it morally when interviewed in the 2010’s. Listening to the doctors talk about what they did reminds me of this scene in The Bourne Legacy where the hot doctor talks excitedly about her groundbreaking research;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7IN6B43hMo
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https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/1598366
>In 1942, 99.9 percent of Sweden’s enlisted conscripts had caries in their teeth. Big holes, all the way to the pulp. Swedes’ dental health is lousy. The government is therefore asking the Medical Board to investigate, and the perfect experimental station can be found in Lund, at Vipeholm’s hospital for “difficult care intractable mental retardation”. There is final storage for the worst mentally ill in the country, and you have full control over what they eat. For two years, the patients are fed enormous amounts of sugar. The research puts Sweden on the international research map, and the result was Saturday candy and fewer cavities in the teeth for the Swedish population. But it was the patients at Vipeholm who had to pay the price.
Sadly I don’t think it exists in English, someone should translate all our P3 documentaries, a lot of them are pieces of art with how well made they are.
Possibly the darkest chapter in our modern history, even more than the sterilization programs. Recently came out a film based on it, with Eng subtitles avalaible. Literally make you cry.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sq4d09NCxQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sq4d09NCxQ)
Before the Nordics became this bastion of progressivism they were very much into this kind of stuff, especially eugenetics which explains why those devils are so good looking.
In all fairness this is mild for the type of human experiments that were going on during this period. Sweden need to up their being a cruel bastard game.
Still taught in dental school to this day.
Don’t be silly, they weren’t mentally capable of complaining.
Lördagsgodis (saturday candy) lore 🥰
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