Melville, L.I.: I am writing about our incredible stepdad, Paul Barberio, who turned 104 on Jan. 13. After a week of not feeling well, on Jan. 31, I invited a priest friend to his apartment for an anointing and to receive Holy Communion.
Top 10 Unethical Psychological Experiments
Psychology is a relatively new science which gained popularity in the early 20th century with Wilhelm Wundt. In the zeal to learn about the human thought process and behavior, many early psychiatrists went too far with their experimentations, leading to stringent ethics codes and standards. Though these are highly unethical experiments, it should be mentioned that they did pave the way to induct our current ethical standards of experiments, and that should be seen as a positive. There is some crossover on this list with the Top 10 Evil Human Experiments. Three items from that list are reproduced here (items 8, 9, and 10) for the sake of completeness.
I know, I know, The Box triumphantly qualifies for one of my favorite adjectives, preposterous. But if you make a preposterous movie that isn t boring, I count that as some kind of a triumph. This one begins as traditional science fiction and branches out into radio signals from Mars, nosebleeds, Sartre s theories about free will, amputated toes, NASA, the National Security Agency, wind tunnels, murders, black Town Cars, obnoxious waiters, and a mysterious stranger.
His name is Arlington Lewis Steward. He drops a box on the front porch of Norma and Arthur Lewis, and returns with an offer: If they push the button on top of the box, they will be paid $1 million in crisp $100 bills ( non-taxable ), but unfortunately, someone not known to them will die. Well, what would you do? Norma has just learned their son s tuition is going up, and Arthur has been dropped from astronaut training. The hell with it: Norma, so sweet and earnest, pushes the button.