This is the story of the most heinous act "in the name of science" I've ever heard of. No research institution in the world would permit its likes to happen today. Medical ethics weren't then what they are now, and this case is most likely, in large part, why. When: 1920 Where: The Johns Hopkins University The perpetrator: John B. Watson The victim: Little Albert John Watson and his research assistant, Rosalie Rayner, wanted to test a theory that emotional responses could

Genie at age `13 in 1970. She was born in 1957. She had a brother, five years older. The story really has to begin with her father. His life was a series of severe personal traumas, that he never resolved. He externalized his woundedness in brutality against his wife and children. In the years in question, he forbade any of them from ever having contact with the outside world, with the specific exception of allowing the son to attend school — and then, every day when the b

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