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Originally Posted by rickroll
also, i thought the rosemary kennedy thing was pretty common knowledge but also from mass so maybe because of that
My first thought when reading it is that it's such a bizarre story involving such a prominent family that I must be out of the loop and everyone else knows.
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
I don't know if I'd classify it as a scam from this reading. Science (maybe that should be in quotes) was a bizarre thing back then. For example this story:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer
I feel like Money started off with good intentions, and was convinced this would work. I could see that being true of the lobotomy inventors as well.
It seems like at that time there was so much ego in the scientific community, not enough people challenging them, and a population that was overly optimistic of scientific advances. Seems like a perfect storm for these doctors to take a shot without anywhere near enough evidence to back up what they're doing.
I'm not excusing it, and DEFINITELY not excusing continuing to do it after seeing the results, but I don't know if they were trying to scam people.