5 experiments that parents are scientists conducted on their children

Until relatively recently, experiments on people are not seen as something out of the ordinary. And some particularly obsessed with the researchers did not see anything wrong, even to experiment on their own children ...

1. The psychologist studying the reaction of his son on schekotku



In 1933, psychologist Clarence Leuba planned to find out why we laugh when we tickle - obeying the innate instinct or because they see the smiles of those who contact us is doing. The most suitable object for the experimental Leuba found his son, still an infant.

First of all, in the name of science Leuba banned in his home every tickling, except for specially designated sessions he conducted himself. Moreover, it is strictly forbidden his wife to laugh and smile even when she touched the baby's skin. Apparently, the subject of investigation seemed to him important enough to deprive the child's usual childhood pleasures.

Next, make sure that the child does not respond to the expression of his own face, Leuba fashioned himself a great mask of cardboard, with tiny holes for the eyes. Putting the nightmare, the scientist carefully tickled certain parts of a child's body, starting from the armpits.

Everything went according to plan until the experiment is not ruined Leuba's wife, who once forgotten and laughed, shaking her sitting in her lap little son. As this blatant incident responded Leuba - history is silent. We only know that after the professor's wife became pregnant with a second child quickly, and soon professor spent his schekotatelny experiment with a newborn daughter.

At this time the experience was able to successfully complete and bring important scientific conclusion: "Children laugh, even if you do not know that so it is accepted».

2. The scientist who invented the vaccine by infecting his own son ospoy

In the late 18th century English physician Edward Jenner was trying to prove his theory that if people deliberately infecting non-lethal cowpox, then recovered, they will be safe from really terrible human smallpox.

Today, we know that Jenner was right, but at that time the whole theory of vaccination was based only on observations of people who worked with cows and rarely sick human smallpox.

It is quite clear that the scientific community reacted to the idea of ​​intentional contamination skeptical, so Jenner decided to risk it, and carry out the experiment on their own little son - Edward Junior. The historical moment of infection own son with cowpox was even immortalized in sculpture:

Vaccination at the time was a not just a prick. Jenner made a cut on his hand boy with a scalpel and the wound liberally smeared with pus formed previously taken from this patient. After the baby is ill with a mild form of smallpox, Jenner has he brought him to this, the human smallpox - if the theory were correct, then the infection should not have happened. Then the same thing he has done more with a few young boys - now the neighborhood.

Fortunately, Jenner was right and justified calculations - or in history, he would have remained a mad killer of young children, not a hero-inventor of the vaccine.

3. The scientist who checked on his son how dangerous burn meduzy



In 1964, an Australian toxicologist named Jack Barnes studied the relationship burns, poisonous jellyfish with the development of so-called "Irukandji syndrome" - a set of very unpleasant symptoms that have been observed in some Australian swimmers.

First of all, Barnes has caught a few jellyfish, which he suspected pathogens mystical Irukandji syndrome. After that was required to conduct an experiment, or simply give caught jellyfish sting someone. For this purpose, it has been selected a group of "guinea pigs", which entered the local lifeguard himself ... Barnes and his nine year old son Nick.

The experiment revealed that the poison of jellyfish does cause Irukandji syndrome, and along with the fact that patients are experiencing terrible agony - worse than a woman in childbirth. 20 minutes after the start of the experiment the entire group in convulsions taken to the ambulance to the nearest hospital.

Fortunately, they all recovered.

4. The scientist, who doomed his own son to imprisonment, to get him to learn a dead yazyk

In 1881, a native of Lithuania on behalf of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda immigrated to Palestine and suddenly realized that all Jews immigrated speak different foreign languages ​​unknown to him, which is why the organization of circumcision of his newborn son, has proved to be extremely problematic. And then Ben Yehuda decided to put life on the fact that the Jews spoke on one common language. In fact, such language has been Jews - Hebrew, but it is in their mother tongue, no one talked about the third century BC. e. It was used only for religious services.

Benefits become the first carrier revived spoken Hebrew, Ben-Yehuda decided to honor his son Itamar. And then there were some difficulties, as in the Old Testament was not of words such as, for example, the "locomotive." So learning Itamar what was happening in the world after the fall of the Roman Empire, it had to invent a lot of new words. It may seem even funny, but ...

Because at that time there were only two new media options conversational Hebrew, Ben-Yehuda forbade his son to communicate with anyone but himself. When guests come to the house, Itamar go to bed so that he accidentally heard the word in a foreign language.

Somehow Ben Yehuda caught his wife for child singing Russian songs. He came into such a rage that began smashing furniture (even scary to think how many new words the boy learned during this scene). So much so that the poor Itamar banned even listen to the sounds of animals.

However, I must admit, the training came to fruition after a while other Jews began to trust Ben Yehuda education of their children, and in the end, Hebrew became the official language of Israel.

5. psychologist who raised the chimpanzee as a brother own rebёnka



In the 1930s, scientists still can not figure out which part of the human intellect is obliged to inheritance and upbringing that instilled. There is even a theory that some of the most intelligent animals - chimpanzees, for example, lack of speech, good manners and morals is due solely to the fact that no one tried to read them aloud books and even raise them as human children.

Even found a psychologist, who has decided to conduct an experiment and a home test that theory. Psychologist Winthrop Kellogg called, and he had just had a son, Donald - a case of the scientist could not miss. Family Kellogg acquired the cub became chimpanzees and raise him as a brother, Donald.

In order to somehow evaluate the intermediate stages of the experiment, Winthrop has developed a complex system of testing that "brothers" were held every day. Kellogg check all that you can - dexterity, memory, language development, obedience, and so on. D.

Unfortunately, the experiment did not give the expected results. Chimpanzees and remained chimpanzees. But Donald influence on the development of "brother" had an unexpected way - he was behaving like a chimpanzee.

When the child started to ride through a monkey and bite everybody, the experiment turned into a matter of urgency.

via factroom.ru