In misc.news.internet.discuss, JAB <
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The identical twins who discovered their secret sibling
A New York adoption agency deliberately split up infant twins in the
1960s as part of a controversial study. Melissa Hogenboom tracks down
some of those involved to find out why they are still searching for
answers about this intrusive experiment.
Mentioned in the article is the older documentary film about a set of
split triplets:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Identical_Strangers
Three Identical Strangers is a 2018 documentary film directed by Tim
Wardle, about the lives of Edward Galland, David Kellman, and Robert
Shafran, a set of identical triplet brothers adopted as infants by
separate families. Combining archival footage, re-enacted scenes,
and present-day interviews, it recounts how the triplet brothers
discovered one another by chance in New York in 1980 at age 19,
their public and private lives in the years that followed, and their
eventual discovery that their adoption had been part of an
undisclosed scientific "nature versus nurture" study of the
development of genetically identical siblings raised in differing
socioeconomic circumstances.
...
They moved in together and opened a restaurant called Triplets
Roumanian Steakhouse, which they operated together. Over time,
however, differences between the three men became apparent, and
their relationships with each other and others experienced
difficulties. All three had struggled with mental health problems
for years, and Galland died by suicide in 1995.
...
The triplet brothers had been involved as children in a study by
psychiatrists Peter B. Neubauer and Viola W. Bernard, under the
auspices of the Jewish Board of Guardians, which involved periodic
visits and evaluations of the boys, the full intent of which was
never explained to the adoptive parents. Following the revelation
that the boys were triplets, the parents sought more information
from the Louise Wise adoption agency, who claimed that they had
separated the boys because of the difficulty of placing triplets in
a single household. But upon further investigation, it was revealed
that the infants had been intentionally separated and placed with
families having different parenting styles and economic levels -- one
blue-collar, one middle-class, and one affluent -- as an experiment
on human subjects.
I remember it from when that came out. The "study" points to the need for ethics review boards when experimenting on living things, most
especially humans. Wikipedia doesn't have the detail, but I recall that
after study was made public, the results of it were barred from
publication during the lifetime of the subjects. Ah, wait, here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_B._Neubauer
At least three of the separated siblings apparently died by suicide.
Yikes.
The experiment was discussed in the 2007 memoir Identical Strangers:
A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited by Elyse Schein and Paula
Bernstein, as well as the documentary films The Twinning Reaction
(2017) and Three Identical Strangers (2018) and the television
episode Secret Siblings (2018). At the conclusion of the study in
1980, Neubauer reportedly feared that public opinion would be
against the study, and declined to publish it.
Gee, I wonder why a study with such a high suicide rate would be
controversial.
The records of the study are sealed at the Yale University Library
until October 25, 2065, although by 2018, some 10,000 pages had been
released but were heavily redacted and inconclusive.
Elijah
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has not watched any of those documentaries
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