Scientific American article series on self-experimenters
While investigating insomnia I came across this 2008 series of Scientific American articles on eight people who've been experimenting on themselves to investigate a variety of hypotheses. The subjects include a cybernetics professor who's wired his nervous system to a computer, the playwright who made the movie "Super Size Me," and a cardiologist who tried an obscure drug to stop his alcohol binging. The fella after my own heart is Seth Roberts, who after ten years of experimenting, finally resolved his insomnia by moving breakfast back a few hours. He also curbed his overeating by ingesting several tablespoons of vegetable oil a day and as a result lost a significant amount of weight. Then he wrote a diet book about it and gained a significant amount of attention. One expert's…