YMMV / Dark Matters: Twisted But True

• Nausea Fuel: Some experiments can lead to this. For example, Dr. Joseph Goldberger tried to disprove the thought that pellagra was caused by disease instead of inferior dietary changes by eating the feces, urine, semen, spit, sweat and blood of pellagra victims...and doesn't get the disease. Unfortunately, people in the south refused to listen to the words of a Northerner (let alone a Jewish New Yorker) so they stuck with the thought that pellagra is a contagious disease for years until over a decade after Goldberger's death.
  • Another example is the story of Mary Mallon AKA Typhoid Mary. She was a healthy carrier of typhoid fever, and because of her unsanitary ways, she wound up spreading the sickness to hundreds of people and had to be quarantined.