Monday, January 19, 2009

Of Babies and Guinea Pigs


Click here to view a New York Times article about a new crop of young scientists who are more than willing to use their own spawn as test subjects.

"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."


Reminds me of an old joke...

An experimental psychologist gives birth to twins...
She calls the first one Francis, and the second one Control.