Spending 30 years in a psychological study warped Susannah Breslin's life

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/susannah-breslin-and-the-decades-long-block-study-research/103741872

by peutetre • 2 years ago

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SuaveSteve• 2 years ago

How do we study and improve the humans without hurting them?

stubish• 2 years ago

Eliminating poverty is the best and probably only socially acceptable way of 'improving' humans (and even that will face friction with some groups). I think we already know enough to say that in a world without poverty, a huge chunk of what we consider negative traits will atrophy over a few generations. We can tackle the rest, and work out what that means, if we get that far.

m463• 2 years ago

I talked to a friend who is a doctor once, and he started telling me some of the ethical concerns about studies. At some point my mind was reeling from all the implications and I don't know how they do studies in the first place.

I'm sure there are common treatments in use for hundreds of years, but if they were discovered today would never get through the approval process.

sans_souse• 2 years ago

The thin line between research and gaslighting

Spending 30 years in a psychological study warped Susannah Breslin's life

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