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Dark Matters: Twisted But True
《科学机密档案》探讨当科学研究太过极端会发生何种后果。本系列带领观众进入实验室了解古怪的科学，并揭露历史上最超乎寻常的实验。由知名科幻演员约翰诺 伯（危机边缘、魔戒）主持，《科学机密档案》深入介绍最奇特的研究，包括试图培育人猿混种、实际的殭尸调查和头部移植研究。先进的计算机动画重现让观众得以 见证重要时刻，了解优秀科学家做科学研究时所面临的争议和道德挣扎。 本系列的首播内容包括介绍苏联科学家伊利亚伊娃诺瓦的惊人研究，他在1920年代试图打造出自己的“猩球”。为了制造无敌军队，伊娃诺瓦试图培育人猿混 种，打造出超级士兵。此外观众也会认识自称为幽浮专家的莫里斯杰瑟，他试图揭露他深信是军方的掩盖行为，包括透明人实验等等。最后，美国最伟大的发明家汤 玛斯爱迪生自行展开非正统的研究，意外导致一项恐怖发明的诞生，而这项发明至今仍难以摆脱恶名。
Charles Lindburgh plans to conquer death, but only for the select few. A song is blamed for 18 suicides. Some donate their dead bodies to science, but science wants one man's body while he was still alive.
Robert Cornish's method for cheating death means a murderer could walk free.The CIA pays Ewen Cameron to invent brainwashing at an awful price for his patients. Louis Pasteur creates a rabies vaccine by gambling with the life of a child.
Egas Moniz chops up living brains to cure mental illness and gets shot for it. Can words kill? A doctor uses the power of mind to save his patient. George Price proves human kindness is an illusion and it drives him to suicide.
Brain surgery creates a perfect amnesiac who can't remember his own life from day to day. A scientist goes to extremes to prove his theory and save lives. A tiny slip while testing the core of an A-bomb releases a blast of radiation.
Fritz Haber feeds the world and murders it with the same technology. Contaminated heroin freezes addicts like statues and the cure uses fetal brain cells. An actress forsees cell-phones and wi-fi but is too beautiful to be taken seriously.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, one of the most notorious in the history of science. A doctor takes a lethal dose of cocaine as a medical experiment. A dentist tries to bomb Japan with tiny bombs carried by millions of bats.
US government experiments illegally on black men with syphilis for 40 years. N-Rays will transform physics in France, if they actually exist. 9 skiers found dead with strange injuries. Was it a quarrel, a secret Soviet weapon, or a yeti?
A chemical that speeds up the flowering process of soybeans and was used as a weapon during the Vietnam War is examined. Also: the origins of hypnotism; a deadly beauty treatment.
Examining a psychological experiment that Ted Kaczynski (aka the Unabomber) underwent during his teenage years. Also: leaded-gasoline poisonings; a look at Russian scientists who protected their work from the Nazis during World War II.
Jose Delgado begins to discover how to electronically control the mind. A doctor at Edinburgh University doesn't ask any questions when two men begin supplying him with fresh human cadavers. Scientist Phillip Lenard leads a vendetta against Einstein.
Pavlovian experiments are performed on orphans; red rain that appears to contain biological cells falls in India; a glow-in-the-dark paint used during World War I contains a deadly ingredient.
A musical genius is forced to create the most brilliant piece of spy technology ever. Wendell Johnson turns his own stutter into a research topic, but it takes a twist in when he experiments on orphans. Dr John Ziegler introduces steroids to athletes.
One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.
