Spanking and mice
Sergei Speransky Institute of Hygiene in Novosibirsk is in the news again. A March 26, 2005 article in Pravda reports that:
Doctor of Biological Sciences, Sergei Speransky, is a very well known figure in Novosibirsk. The doctor became one of the authors of the shocking whipping therapy. The professor used the self-flagellation method to cure his own depression; he also recovered from two heart attacks with the help of physical tortures too.
Dr. Speransky is perhaps most famous for a paper about mice that he published more than a decade ago:
"Study of Human-Animal Communication at a Distance Between Moscow and Novosibirsk, L.M. Porvin, & S.V. Speransky, Parpsikhologiya i Psikhofizika [Parapsychology and Psychophysics]," vol. 9, no. 1, no. 1,1993), pp. 8-29. [in Russian]
(Thanks to Christine van der Aa for bringing Dr. Speransky to our attention.)