Ezequiel Lafont
Department of Psychiatry, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USAPublications
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Nature vs Nurture: A Fraudulent Adoptive Study
Author(s): Dolores Malaspina* and Ezequiel Lafont
A clandestine study of genes and the environment was putatively conducted by the Louise Wise Adoption Agency. Under the guidance of one (or two) prominent psychiatrists, identical twins were secretly placed in separate homes as singleton births and longitudinally followed in their adoptive homes, unbeknownst to them or their adoptive parents. This was described as a “child development study” but no informed consent was provided by the biological mother or adopting parents or the adoptees themselves as participants in human research. Less attention has been directed to the six-month placement in “foster care” for twin infants as well as singletons, during which some testing or evaluation occurred, where the agency concealed severe mental illness in the biological parents. The lead researchers, deeply aware of the genetic research underpinning the Nazi’s mu.. Read More»
DOI: 10.3371/CSRP.MDEL.013225