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re: 10 Psychological experiments that went horribly wrong.

Posted on 4/11/14 at 8:41 am to
Posted by NoSaint
Member since Jun 2011
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Posted on 4/11/14 at 8:41 am to
the elephant one seemed a little out of place
Posted by DosManos
Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 4/11/14 at 8:56 am to
The youtube video on the Stanford Experiment was enlightening.

I wonder if the guards had to sleep in the mock prison. I feel like leaving that environment every night would mess with the experiment. Also, I wonder if the researchers did any follow-up with the prisoners that had breakdowns and if it had any long-term effects.
Posted by TheGreat318
West of Bossier
Member since Feb 2012
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Posted on 4/11/14 at 9:10 am to
Would have loved to see the look on the Doctor's face when Tusko kicked the can. Wonder if there was a collective "WHOOPS"?
Posted by brass2mouth
NOLA
Member since Jul 2007
19685 posts
Posted on 4/11/14 at 9:22 am to
Yeah, some followups would have been nice, but quite honestly if your experiment were the cause of me having a mental breakdown I doubt I would be all that happy about sitting down and talking with you.

I think that experiment showed, quite clearly, what happens when 1 human is granted power over another and there is little to no oversight by an impartial overseer and as they noted in the video, Abu Ghraib almost 100% backed the results from the experiment.

I think you could also tie it in to law enforcement officers as well in some instances.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
64495 posts
Posted on 4/11/14 at 9:26 am to
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In 1966, when David Reimer was 8 months old, his circumcision was botched and he lost his penis to burns. Psychologist John Money suggested that baby David be given a sex change. The parents agreed, but what they didn’t know was that Money secretly wanted to use David as part of an experiment to prove his views that gender identity was not inborn, but rather determined by nature and upbringing. David was renamed Brenda, surgically altered to have a vagina, and given hormonal supplements — but tragically the experiment backfired. "Brenda" acted like a stereotypical boy throughout childhood, and the Reimer family began to fall apart. At 14, Brenda was told the truth, and decided to go back to being David. He committed suicide at the age of 38.


It's still liberal/progressive dogma that boys and girls only act the way society molds them to act according to their gender roles. Guess they only like science when it backs up their politics.
Posted by USMCTiger03
Member since Sep 2007
71176 posts
Posted on 4/11/14 at 9:46 am to
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Number 1 is really sad and horrible. Wth



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Psychologist John Money



Never charged with a crime. Died at the ripe age of 84. There's no justice in the fricking world sometimes.

Also a lesson to the many that seem okay with blindly following "science":
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For the first thirty years after Dr. Money's initial report that the reassignment had been a success, Dr. Money's view of the malleability of gender became the dominant viewpoint among physicians and doctors, reassuring them that sexual reassignment was the correct decision in certain instances, resulting in thousands of sexual reassignments.

How many fricking lives did this sicko quack destroy?
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