Yes, unethical. But the one defense that those researchers have, the one comeback is "yeah, perhaps we shouldn't have, but isn't it fascinating?

Yeah, fascinating man, like what will happen when we take out a small portion of the frontal lobe kinna fascinating....sick Nazi state-funded fucks- CPS, social services, adoption agencies...all breeding grounds for tweakers who love to dictate-

It is indeed pretty horrible playing with people's lives like this. I guess the researcher had the notion that 'oh, really, if you don't know you have a sibling, then what does it matter?'. Horribly misguided and wrong, but I can see how someone with the wrong mindset could think that way.

It is, of course, also fascinating, and one would love to know more about what they've discovered in regards to the nature vs. nurture thing here. But to take people's lives and play with them like this out of curiosity... yeah, that's a problem which real scientists hate, because it lets all those fundies cry 'Look what happens when science rules!'

The conflict here is not between scientific interest and humanitarian concerns - this is just a philanthropic effort to minimize suffering. Listen to these women - they're incredibly annoying on their own, so imagine how their parents would have suffered if the kids hadn't been separated! Listen to them!

babymech now really....

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Was there a real pragmatic reason to separate them? Consider the possibility that they would have been relegating to playing foster home ping-pong their entire childhoods vs the supportive adoptive families they ended up with.

Since they say, in the interview, that it was not done expressly for the study it seems that the "evil scientist" argument fails.

I would like to know the variance in actual adoption placement numbers before and after they started this separation policy. And how the "siblings as a group" rules effect adoption placement since '85.