On: Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes (2015)

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The point of any medical intervention is to make the patient better. By that standard, a lobotomy is ineffective. Lobotomies "worked" by making patients deeply disabled, in a way that made them more manageable.

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They performed one on JFK's sister: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Kennedy

It's a very sad story, although that's pretty common for lobotomy cases.