23 Disturbing, Real Experiments Done On Children

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23 Disturbing, Real Experiments Done On Children

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We're big supporters of science and the scientific method, but let's face it -- sometimes that shit gets weird. Like when scientists have the genius idea to conduct experiments on children -- often their own offspring.

Read on for actual, weird experiments conducted by scientists who probably don't get a lot of Mother's Day cards.

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High school teacher Ron Jones started an experiment that snowballed into a school- wide fascist movement called 'The Third THE wave' WAVE Meant to dem

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1950's researchers Jones and Bayley examined whether early or late onset puberty was more socially advantageous. Hot S Not This mostly involved studyi

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Do wet diapers wake up babies? That's what a 2007 experiment set to find out. Scientists gathered 34 sleeping infants and, using a syringe, injected t

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