An investigation into alternative therapies for autism by the Chicago Tribune in 2009 found many had "little basis in science" and amounted to "uncontrolled experimentation on children".
Books have been written – I wrote one myself – about the negative effect of such social experimentation on children But it must be recognised that few parents set out to do damage, and in Monkey Grip I hear a love song for the optimism of the 70s, for the gameness of people like Nora, trying out different ways of living.
In addition to practical challenges of experimentation on children, measurement equipment like plantar pressure (PP) platforms are almost exclusively geared towards adult-sized feet.
io9's Annalee Newitz loved the "great, creepy" opening scene, the arc concerning Walter's past experimentation on children, and the "well-played, funny and strange" scene when "Olivia" goes to the strip club.
In a world of social as well as intellectual change, there were necessarily new ethical questions such as those dealing with abortion, biological experimentation, and child rights which placed new demands on education and required new methods of teaching.
Ironically, that has led to a decades-long experimentation on our children.
But the thorniness of that initial question – is experimentation on one child justified if it benefits multitudes?
The household was so placidly, sparklingly domestic that I wondered aloud how she broached her psychedelic self-experimentation to her children.
"Opening the door to human cloning -- even with good intentions -- inevitably will lead to experimentation on the child-to-be," Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., a Wisconsin Republican and the Judiciary Committee's chairman, said today.
Given the low rates of smoking experimentation, 9 10 year old children could be an appropriate cohort to target for primary prevention.
