When it comes to using humans as experimental objects, everyone may not be unfamiliar, such as Nazi Germany using Jews, Gypsies and other "inferior" human races to do all kinds of terrible experiments, and recent such as the "coincidence" of infectious diseases around the Fort Detrick laboratory in the United States, which stimulates people's nerves all the time. It doesn't matter what the purpose of these experiments that test the bottom line of human nature is, what matters is why they poison their peers.
However, in 1930, a cruel incident occurred in New York, the United States, using his own son as the subject of the experiment, although the experiment had to be terminated after 9 months, but the impact was enough to wake people up.
Kellogg and his research
The story begins with an American named Kellogg. Born in 1898, Kellogg is a native of Tevernon, New York. From an early age, he was very clever and clever, and in addition to the praise that could bring him high emotional intelligence, he also made him more convinced that psychology was his lifelong pursuit.
Kellogg was enrolled in Indiana University when World War I broke out, and in response to the national call for conscription, Kellogg signed up for the army and went to Europe with the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force. After the war, lucky Kellogg was not devastated by the war, returned to the United States intact, and continued to return to school for further study. Because of his interests, Kellogg chose to major in philosophy and psychology.
While at school, Kellogg also met his lifelong partner, a beautiful girl named Lula. Lula was very understanding and supportive of Kellogg's research, and often discussed academically relevant topics with him. After graduation, the two married and started a new life together. Kellogg found a job as a journalist at a newspaper, and because it was not well paid and did not meet Kellogg's interests, he quit the job after consulting with his wife and enrolled in a master's degree in psychology from Columbia University.
In 1927, Kellogg finished his studies and began research, and soon became famous in the United States and became a successful psychologist.
Just as everything was moving toward a good approach, a piece of news changed Kellogg's life.
The story of the wolf child Kamala
1,000 kilometers west of Calcutta, India, people were surprised to find three wolves firmly behind a skinny unknown creature. The creature crawls on all fours, with thick hair but a smooth back, much like a "human" person. They killed three wolves and followed the strange creature to its lair, where they found another creature of the same, and after catching them, they found that it was two little girls.
This is the famous "Indian Wolf Child" incident. The story ends with the two little girls being taken back to the place where humans gathered, one of whom died of kidney disease the following year and the other who died at the age of 17. The two children did not eventually learn the human language and lived a lifestyle similar to that of beasts.
The story piqued Kellogg's interest in whether life habits affect each other when humans and animals live together, and how much does the human environment affect him when he is young?
Crazy young and orangutan experiments
Kellogg did not rush to prepare for the experiment, but fully prepared his theoretical basis, and the thing that made him determined to put it into action began with a scientific salon.
In 1929, Columbia University held an academic salon to discuss genetic and environmental issues, and the participants were experts and scholars in related fields. When it was Kellogg's turn to speak, he referred to the example of indian wolf children, who decided that the impact of the environment on humans was crucial. His speech caused a lot of laughter, and many people said that his hearsay fake news did not prove anything at all, and science needed to be verified experimentally.
This result greatly hurt Kellogg's self-esteem, and he realized that he had to act immediately.
Kellogg prepared a sum of cash to recruit volunteers for the experiment, but the results disappointed him so much that months of recruitment went unearned, and every volunteer who applied laughed at the crazy idea.
Just then, good news arrived. In August 1930, Lula bore Kellogg's first child, Donald. Looking at the cute child, Kellogg was very happy, but a terrible thought also came to mind.
In 1931, when Donald was 10 months old, Kellogg offered his wife his idea: the experiment had to continue, and if there were no volunteers, an orangutan could be brought home to raise, and then the performance of Donald and the orangutan could be observed as a result of the experiment. Lula, out of trust in her husband and understanding of science, acceded to this ridiculous request.
Kellogg adopted a 7-month-old female chimpanzee from the charity and named her Guya. Donald and Guya live together every day, eating, and moving. The surrounding neighbors were surprised to find that the children next door came and went with the orangutan!
Results of Guya's experiments
Kellogg recorded a series of behavioral changes in children and orangutans, gradually giving them a bad premonition.
First, Donald, who had shown limited language skills over a 10-month period, began to make a roar similar to Guya's.
Secondly, in terms of learning, chimpanzees are very fast in human development and physical maturity, and they are also very fast in learning human behavior. In a few months, Guya had already opened the door and gone to the toilet, while Donald only had animal behaviors such as roaring, crawling, and biting.
However, the calm was broken during an outing, and the wife Lula began to stop supporting her husband through the incident. As usual, Lula leads Donald and Guya for a walk in the square alone, when Guya suddenly quarrels with the other children and wrestles with each other. Donald's open nostrils and grinning teeth made Lula realize that something was wrong, and that this was no longer the behavior of a human child.
Back home, Lula and Kellogg have a showdown, and it's time for the experiment to end. Kellogg also recognized this problem, more and more friends said that their children are like orangutans, the success of the experiment to bring their own achievements, is not to accompany the children's endless pain? In this way, the 10-month Guya experiment was over.
The story ends like this: Guya returns to her kind after living in human society and is ostracized, and dies of depression 3 years later. Under the care and correction of his family, Donald quickly lost the behavior characteristics of orangutans, and his language ability returned to normal, and he grew up to study psychiatry at Harvard University, and was a full-fledged student.
From the beginning, The Guya experiment was full of absurd implications, and people were more likely to express incomprehension and strong condemnation. Judging from the steps of the current scientific experiment, without a complete demonstration and without the experiment of animals as the subject, the act of directly taking humans as the subject of experiments is undoubtedly a crime. Of course, this experiment also raises ethics to the standard of scientific experiments for the first time, experiments can not be bottomless, and any derogatory behavior is not worthy of respect.
Author: Old Dream Tales Preliminary Review: Ding Bao'er School Manuscript Editor: W