It’s Like Something Out of Atlas Shrugged

By Filed under Science and Other News on April 10, 2009 with 2 comments

But apparently, this is medical research, not fiction:

Military researchers have dressed live pigs in body armor and strapped them into Humvee simulators that were then blown up with explosives to study the link between roadside bomb blasts and brain injury.

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  1. Tom H. says:
    April 10, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    You’re right. There was something equally inane in Atlas Shrugged. I think the victim in the novel was a goat.

  2. Ruth says:
    April 11, 2009 at 3:13 pm

    This is only one of a great many things going on that remind me of Atlas Shruggged.