110. Experimenting with 1 and 1 ½ years old infants is crime. P S Remesh Chandran

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Experimenting with 1 and 1 ½ year old infants is crime

P S Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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The article shows that one Diane Pouline Dubois, Professor in Psychology at the Concordia University Centre for Research in Human Development, led a study involving 60 infants aged 1 to 1 ½ years age to learn whether children would choose not to learn from someone who they perceive as unreliable. Every illiterate mother in this world knows that infants can figure out whether you are sincere or not. No research spending public money, resources and valuable university time is needed to know this. It only tells us how public money is being recklessly spent by pompous academicians the world over. Then there is the question of using tiny infants for wayward academic researches. More ripe psychologists know that those toddlers would grow up wary of so many things till the end of their days, especially since the insecurity they felt with a few of those researchers was a cleverly calculated one and also since they do not at all are at an age to know that it is only an experiment. Playing with innocent children’s mind is one of the most abominable crimes committed to the future human society in the making. It is not demanded here that those researchers should be expelled from the world, but at least those researchers should convince the world that they searched all over the world for any such knowledge existing anywhere already, before attempting to conduct such psychological experiments involving children between the ages of 1 and 1 ½ years.

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[In response to news article ‘Study reveals infants can assess you’re sincere or not’ on 08 December 2011]