An astounding exposé that gives voice to the unwitting subjects of an infamous American scientific experiment: the 1960 | dG1fT0hkbEhVWC1nTFU
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00:00There's nothing I can think of in science that is more political than twin studies.
00:21These studies have been used to justify racism, classism, and Nazism, you know, many of the
00:28worst features of our society.
00:38I thought it was a Nazi experiment that they had done.
00:41They didn't give a damn for anybody.
00:42My reaction to that is it's a bunch of bullshit.
00:45We also may be talking about a liar.
00:47They didn't know shit about shit anyway.
00:49He stole a childhood.
00:52They separated us after three months.
00:56Twins were purposefully being separated because of a misguided, unproven notion that twins
01:02are better off in separate families.
01:04There is nothing, no basis to ever support that.
01:08Do they, at this point, do they know that they're twins?
01:12Some do, some don't.
01:15Families in the New York area had no knowledge of a twin study that is hiding basic facts.
01:20They had been deprived of that relationship their entire lives by scientists who wanted
01:27to study them.
01:29I lost him to a suicide.
01:31He was not happy.
01:33She was very glum.
01:35Her first suicide attempt was when she was 17.
01:39I can't tell you the feeling to look at a stone and see your birthday on a stone.
01:46I would rather not want to speak about it.
01:49Oh, really?
01:50There's no study, no anything.
01:52It's ridiculous.
01:53And the more, you know, stuff I read, the more wrong it kind of seems.
01:58And the more upsetting it gets.