A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects – NYTimes.com
Apparently, some scientists use their own children as test subjects in the name of science.
At a birthing class, Dr. Sinha, a neuroscience professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stunned everyone, including his wife, by saying he was excited about the baby’s birth “because I really want to study him and do experiments with him.†He did, too, strapping a camera on baby Darius’s head, recording what he looked at.
— A New Crop of Scientists Are Using Their Children as Research Subjects – NYTimes.com
I love science as much as anyone, but this is very disturbing to me. Does anyone NOT see an ethical issue here?