Yesterday in class we watched a Youtube video where a present day reality show reenacted the famous experiment done by Milgram. Obviously we saw that that experiment was extremely unethical because is caused physical harm to the participants and the man in the white lab coat forced the participants to keep going even after they begged to stop. I found a description of an experiment I found unethical. Click HERE to read about the experiment.
In short, a scientist from the University of Iowa collected 22 orphans who previously had no speech impediments. He randomly assigned them to one of to groups. One group would get positive enforcement when speaking and the other group would receive negative enforcement when speaking. The children who grew up with positive enforcement now speak normally while the children who received negative enforcement now have a permanent speech impediment. This experiment is extremely unethical because it involved very young children and it caused them extreme physical harm. He obviousy also could not get consent from the children or their parents because they were orphans. Overall this experiment is considered one of the top ive most unethical experiments ever conducted. You should read the story and post your thoughts. :)
Ashalee
This is really interesting. I'm curious to know if they were ever able to fix the speech impediments that they caused to happen. I also think the children were emotionally harmed because of the teasing they may recieve in an early age.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brianna. I thought it was very interesting but since they did get away with the expirament i don't think they would fix the problem that they caused especially since the kids were in an orphanage and less fortunate.
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