Funnily enough, the Stanford Prison experiment was pretty much just an act, with both parties encouraged to act the way they did. It’s been discredited nowadays.
A better analogy would be the Milgram experiment(s). Often repeated, breaking certain ethical rules (e.g. not telling your test subjects the whole truth about the experiment), with the result of some test subjects taking their own life from the sheer realisation of what they did, and yet the experiment still stands uncontested in its results.
I mean, Theranos was less classic ethical nightmare as it was just a grift, separating suckers from their money. A possible more fitting example in the same vein would be Roger Wakefield’s “studies” on how the MMR vaccines cause autism., where actual children got harmed and spurred on the antivax movement.
Stanford had the “predict if people are gay from a photo” from that guy that was buddies with Putin. And I think they also had an asshole who did a bunch of work on trying to determine, again, gay from DNA. That guy was actually gay himself.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Funnily enough, the Stanford Prison experiment was pretty much just an act, with both parties encouraged to act the way they did. It’s been discredited nowadays.
A better analogy would be the Milgram experiment(s). Often repeated, breaking certain ethical rules (e.g. not telling your test subjects the whole truth about the experiment), with the result of some test subjects taking their own life from the sheer realisation of what they did, and yet the experiment still stands uncontested in its results.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Theranos. Silicon Valley.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I mean, Theranos was less classic ethical nightmare as it was just a grift, separating suckers from their money. A possible more fitting example in the same vein would be Roger Wakefield’s “studies” on how the MMR vaccines cause autism., where actual children got harmed and spurred on the antivax movement.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Stanford had the “predict if people are gay from a photo” from that guy that was buddies with Putin. And I think they also had an asshole who did a bunch of work on trying to determine, again, gay from DNA. That guy was actually gay himself.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly, that’s news to me. Mind linking it? Might be interesting to read about it.