stackyFACTSThe inventor of the lobotomy was awarded a remarkably high global honor for his brutal technique. Doctors would randomly sever frontal lobe connections with an ice pick, permanently destroying a patient's personality, and the medical community genuinely celebrated it as a massive, elegant leap forward in treatment.
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