Scientists Secretly Abusing People (2016 Rerun)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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December 5, 2016
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| 0:00.0 | Psychologists and physicians and researchers have been abusing people for centuries. |
| 0:07.0 | In the name of science, they've been tricking people, they've been lying to people, they've been harming people, and even killing people, |
| 0:15.0 | particularly marginalized groups of people, like poor people, African-American people, and disabled people. |
| 0:22.8 | When I was in grad school, I remember hearing about one or two instances of unethical research |
| 0:28.0 | in psychology and psychotherapy. |
| 0:30.8 | But then a patron asked me to do a deep dive on research ethics, and so I looked into the literature |
| 0:37.4 | and the history of psychology and and |
| 0:39.7 | medical research. And I found a never-ending list of abuses by researchers over the decades and |
| 0:49.8 | centuries. In the beginning, it was mainly medical researchers who were harming and killing people. |
| 0:56.2 | And then as psychology gained prominence throughout the 20th century, they took their turn in harming their study participants. |
| 1:05.3 | And new abuses, even today, are being discovered all the time. |
| 1:10.2 | There was just a big story that came out a few years ago. |
| 1:14.4 | So in preparation for this episode, I thought I would be able to provide a comprehensive list of all the main abuses in psychology, because I really wanted to give you guys, you know, the full story. |
| 1:26.4 | But the list is so long that I couldn't |
| 1:30.0 | possibly include everything in one episode. And, you know, we wonder why people are so |
| 1:37.1 | suspicious of us all the time. They should be suspicious of us. I'm suspicious of us now. |
| 1:43.1 | We've committed terrible acts on the public. It's terrible. |
| 1:48.1 | Well, that's what I want to talk about today, the history of research ethics and all the |
| 1:53.2 | terrible things that have happened. Welcome to the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, |
| 1:58.5 | Dr. Kirk Honda. I am chair of the couple and family therapy program |
| 2:03.5 | at Antioch University Seattle, and I'm also a licensed marriage of family therapist. This |
| 2:09.7 | episode is just for patrons of the podcast. So if you're listening to this and you're not a |
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