5 Fun experiments: Paid for sex, Paid to sleep, Free $100,000, Free Drugs, and Paid to eat.

Since all the CB groups are currently conducting their studies, I thought this article was quite relevant & very funny.

Link:  goo.gl/02e1kX

NASA* Bed Rest Study: If you could design your perfect job, what would it be? If you said, "Staying in bed all day, surfing the web and playing video games on a laptop," well, you're most people in our target demographic. You're also a couple of years too late.  In 2008, NASA was recruiting regular people using radio and TV ads for a 90-day study that involved earning $17,000 for doing little more than being confined to a bed (yes, you could play WoW if you wanted to). 

Harsh Reality: They wanted to see the effects of prolonged zero gravity on the body.  They found that after just a few weeks of constant bed rest, muscle atrophy set in, and bone density went down.  It then took weeks of physical therapy for people to get back in shape so they could perform their daily tasks.

Paid to Eat Study:  Back in the 1970s, researchers combined two cornerstones of American society, obesity and overcrowded prisons, into one fat-tastic study. A select group of prison inmates, hopefully the non-rapey kind, were offered early release on the grounds that they agreed to gain 25 percent of their body weight.  It doesn't get much better than that! Pack on a few extra pounds and before you know it you'll be home just in time to catch your best friend raising your kids and nailing your girlfriend!  

Harsh Reality:  Researchers were actually looking to see if there were genes that keep people from getting fat?  Well, they found out that some individuals were genetically disposed to make weight gain really really hard.  1/3 of the individuals studied could not gain weight even if they consumed 10,000 calories a day.

Sudden Wealth: what if some guys handed you $100,000, on the condition that they get to film what happens to you next? And what if you were living under a bridge at the time?

The crew of the documentary Reversal of Fortune planted a suitcase filled with 100 grand for homeless man Ted Rodrigue to find, and followed him around with a camera to document the results. Initially, Ted did exactly what the rest of us would do if someone gave us $100,000. He bought a new bicycle, picked up Mike from down at the local recycling plant and hit the fucking amusement park.

Harsh Reality: He couldn't manage his money and was back on the streets in 6 months.