23 Disturbing, Real Experiments Done On Children
Because why should monkeys and rats have all the fun?
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We're big supporters of science and the scientific method, but let's face it -- sometimes that stuff 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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![Scientists at England's University of Sheffield made 6-month-old babies stare at different faces of macaques to see how well they can recognize faces.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/6/9/657469.jpg?v=2)
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![Psychology professor Clarence Leuba wanted to know if laughing when tickled is an innate response, so he performed experiments on his own children. Fo](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/6/2/657462.jpg?v=2)
![After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 3rd grade teacher Jane Elliott taught her class about racism by turning them racist. She segregated](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/8/1/657481.jpg?v=2)
![A study conducted by scientists from Yale University indicates that babies under 24 months have a sense of morality. When shown puppets who did someth](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/6/0/657460.jpg?v=2)
![Laszlo Polgar believed that anyone can become a genius with early training. To prove this, he tested his hypothesis on his own daughters:! Susan, Soph](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/5/6/657456.jpg?v=2)
![CRACKEDCON In 1960, psychologists Eleanor J. Gibson and Richard D. Walk devised an illusory cliff contraption to see if babjes' survival instinct woul](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/4/9/657449.jpg?v=2)
![THE SMELLIER, THE BETTER Before they can see her face, a newborn is guided to their mother's breast by smell. BUT JUST HOW DO WE KNOW? Scientists dang](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/5/4/3/657543.jpg?v=2)
![Dro Carolyn Rovee-Collier was one of the first psychologists to test the memory function in infants. While looking for a way to entertain her own baby](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/5/2/657452.jpg?v=2)
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![GRAGKEDOON Researchers put kids in a room, said an invisible woman named Princess Alice was going to watch them play a game, and then they left. The k](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/7/0/657470.jpg?v=2)
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![R A C I S T The verdict is in: Babies are racist. Researchers from Ontario Institute for Studies in Education had adults of various races show babies](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/7/7/657477.jpg?v=2)
![In 1962, Laurel Children's Center in Maryland used children to test experimental acne medications. The researchers continued testing even after half o](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/7/3/657473.jpg?v=2)
![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](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/6/4/657464.jpg?v=2)
![In 1939, researcher Clara M. Davis let 15 babies select their own food for 6 years without adult intervention. They were allowed to choose from a tota](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/pictofact/4/6/3/657463.jpg?v=2)