http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070817/ap_on_re_us/stuttering_lawsuit
This pales, of course, in comparison to the Tuskagee experiments in syphillis, or Skinner's on his daughter, but still, how terrifying for a child to be tortured so an adult can study some abstract thing.
2007-08-17 13:33:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Sorry for the typo in the title.
2007-08-17 13:36:00 · update #1
Yeah it sucks but sadly a great deal of medical and psychological research and knowledge has come from atrocites ie the Nazi experiments of Dr. Mengele.
They are the reason that every experiment has to have a informed consent form. You have to spell out in very explicit terms the dangers of an experiment, even though you don't tell them what you are studying. Even before you are allowed to start an experiment you are required to present the experiment and your intentions/hypothesis to a comittee in most universities/colleges.
2007-08-17 18:13:48 · answer #1 · answered by angrymunky 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is so horrible. but then again this was done 70 years back, when no one believed women had rights and african americans were treated like dirt. but if this is still done now, there has got to be an organization that will put an end to it. it's horrible!! kinda like what they did during world war II to the twins/dwarfs/giants...i can't believe someone would actually WANT to torture children and even adults just for the "name of science"
there are better ways to go about it. i don't know any. but if they're that smart, they can think of something...
2007-08-17 13:45:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
ofcourse I hate it ,, and I wish that later the experimenteee would get an opertunity to stand in front of the experimentooor with a experiment of their own choosing to be conducted if they so desire ,.but of course thats a wicked thought , and I hope the wicked thought will not last long and vanish before any real dammage gets done,, but it would be nice to see the shoe on the other foot....however I'm pretty religous and believe that forgiveness is king,
2007-08-17 14:08:19 · answer #3 · answered by darkcloud 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its been done so many times over. Personally I think the drug industry is doing just this. Take the reality that the testing phase of medication is on otherwise completely healthy people on a minimum of medication. Then they take those same meds and give them to people ill in complex ways and on multiple medications.
2007-08-18 14:12:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋