Who Gets Sick?

Hello! Welcome back to Bioethics Dialogues!! This is part 1 of the second episode of this podcast and your co-hosts, Sanya and Nirali, are discussing psychological experiments! We are really looking into experimentation, while mentioning some example studies. We hope you take away a lot from this and we encourage you to join us to learn about psychological experimentation and form your own opinions on it!

Learn more with similar studies or studies we talked about:

Tuskegee Syphilis Study: https://www.history.com/news/the-infamous-40-year-tuskegee-study; https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/timeline.htm#:~:text=The%20study%20initially%20involved%20600,syphilis%2C%20anemia%2C%20and%20fatigue. 

Stanford Prison Experiment: https://research.oregonstate.edu/irb/research-involving-deception 

Electroshock Therapy (Dr. Lauretta Bender): https://theclio.com/entry/88387 

Facebook Manipulation Study: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/?sh=4d56b754197c
Festinger & Carlsmith's Study: https://explorable.com/cognitive-dissonance 

Sources: 

⁠https://research-compliance.umich.edu/human-subjects/irb-health-sciences-and-behavioral-sciences-hsbs/irb-review-process#:~:text=IRB%20staff%20assign%20submissions%20to,a%20determination%20for%20the%20submission⁠. 

⁠https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/posts/2023/08/review-highlights-unethical-moments-in-medical-research-history#:~:text=Reporters%20combed%20through%20decades%20of,would%20have%20been%20deemed%20unethical⁠. 

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Sanya + Nirali

Hello! We are introducing the first-ever episode of Bioethics Dialogues! In this episode, your co-stars, Nirali and Sanya, are discussing CRISPR-Cas9 and the ethical implications of it. CRISPR-Cas9 is a controversial gene editing technology that can be used to modify the genome or turn genes on/off in both cells and organisms. We are engaging in a debate-style conversation to provide our own insightful thoughts on this technology and we encourage you to join us to learn about CRISPR and form your own opinions on it!

Thank you for your time and please enjoy!

** If you would like to explore this topic further, feel free to visit the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) at this link: https://innovativegenomics.org/

(p.s. this our first time creating a podcast and we are learning along the way!)

Sanya + Nirali