There are some experiments, although everyone is curious about the results of that experiment, these experiments are not carried out because they do not comply with the ethical rules. Of course, in some cases, scientists who risk taking this risk go beyond ethical rules and perform various experiments. Today we will tell you the story of 3 siblings who were born as quadruplets and one of them died during childbirth. The event that completely changed the lives of these triplets begins at birth.
On July 12, 1961, a young single mother gave birth to quadruplets. One of the babies dies during birth. Triplets born in a healthy way are sent to the Louise Wise Adoption Center in New York after checkups at the hospital.
Experiment on triplets begins from this point
Triplets are given to 3 specially selected families after a short stay at the adoption center. The way of raising children and socioeconomic status of these families are different from each other. Because they have been adopted before, the adoption center has the necessary information about these families. All these procedures, Dr. He proceeds under the supervision of a psychiatrist named Peter Neubauer.
Families are also unaware of this experiment
Families take their children and start raising them, but they are unaware that they are in an experiment. However, the adoption center sends researchers home each year to monitor children’s development, intelligence, and behavior. Although these researches initially made the families suspicious, they did not dwell on it much because they received the answer that “it is an ordinary study to measure the development of adopted children”.
Things start to come to light when siblings turn 19
All three siblings grow up in different houses by calling different people as mom and dad. They do not know about each other, but some strange events have started to happen. While attending New York’s SUNY Sullivan Vocational School, Robert starts encountering strange events sometimes. People he doesn’t know mistake him for someone named Eddy and pretend they know him. Some of his friends, who knew that he was Robert, even started calling him “Eddy”.
Robert and Eddy, who met through their mutual friends after these strange events, learned that they were both born on the same date and were adopted from the Luise Wise Adoption Center. As if it was not enough that they were almost identical in appearance, the story of the brothers who liked the same movies and were interested in wrestling became news in a local newspaper.
The third sibling joins the twins who are separated from each other
Reading the news after the local newspaper news was published, David saw two almost identical people. Moreover, their date of birth and the institution they were given for adoption were the same. Thus, the three brothers; Robert, Eddy and David came together. The three brothers, who often spent time together and got to know each other, later opened a restaurant they called “Triplets”.
The triplets began to investigate who separated them
After the triplets came together, they began to investigate who separated them. The result was a psychiatrist named Peter Neubauer. In this experiment to understand what behavior and characteristics the triplets would have if they grew up in different conditions, these triplets were not the only victims. It was later discovered that Neubauer had separated many twins and triplets for experimentation.
The result of the experiment is unknown even today
Neubauer’s experiment was completed in 1980. However, the results of the experiment are not fully known even today. The data, thought to be over 11 thousand pages, of the experiment, whose ethical background and scientific value is the subject of debate, were sealed by the center and Neubauer until 2065. Neubauer’s concern was that the public would react harshly to him because of the ethical aspect of the experiment.
Neubauer sealed the data for this reason and died in 2008 at the age of 94. The data currently stored at Yale University is over 11,000 pages. 10,000 pages of this data have been published, but the data cannot be evaluated scientifically because it was published with severe censorship. To see all the details about the experiment, it is necessary to wait for the year 2065.
What happened to the triplets?
Photographs: David and Robert
After the triplets got together and started doing things together, they realized that they didn’t get along that well after all. Psychological problems began to occur in all three of them. Robert left the restaurant to become a lawyer. Eddy, on the other hand, could not cope with his experiences and committed suicide in 1995 at the age of 33. At least three of the people in this experiment by Neubauer are known to have committed suicide.
Going back to the siblings, Robert currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children. He became a lawyer as he aimed. David lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children. He works for an insurance company.
In 2018, the story of these three brothers was the subject of a biography/documentary movie called “Three Familiar Strangers”.
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