Lauren ober is a newly diagnosed artistic person. Her new show, the loudest girl in the world, is all about her weird path to diagnosis. Ober: If an experiment isn't truly voluntary, how do we justify making the subject suffer? i think at that point you should say, no, that's enough.
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment could never be done today. No scientist could get permission to starve 36 healthy people for close to a year. But why? Revisionist History tries to follow the strange logic that governs our thinking about medical experiments.
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