Three identical strangers

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Anyone watching? Shocking that this was done deliberately for a study, the results of which will never be made public. Heartbreaking.

It's disgusting isn't it

I just watched it. Heartbreaking. Particularly when the researcher said at the end that he thinks that there are at least 4 people out there who don't know they are twins. The admin person seemed very heartless in her comment at the end about not releasing the data until everyone is gone ( and the lead man putting it inn embargo in Yale until 2066).

As someone who works in a university department with an ethics committee, past which every experiment must go, the mind boggles. Although the 70s were very different, just watch Nim Chimpsky for that.

It was interesting that the experimenters, for I refuse to use the term scientists, were so pro nature v nurture, given how much is known about brain plasticity these days, and the surviving triplets did speak of that at the end.

A devastating piece of television. How much damage has been done, we do not know. That is just one lab, one experiment.

I think they don't want to admit how many they separated, they should have the pants sued off them

It interested me that the most understanding to the children's situation was the aunt who had survived the holocaust - as I had said to DP near the start, that it reminded me of Mengele.

I loved that one of the dads had said 'they should have given all of them to me', and post meeting, did say 'i have three sons'. That was lovely, and not a surprise that the son he adopted seemed the most happy in himself, this situation notwithstanding.

I watched - started off like some unbelievable dream and ended up being an utterly disgusting nightmare.

How heartbreaking for all those families and separated siblings.

I think the numbers used in the study will be much larger than suspected.

I’ve no idea how robust the ethics committees were in 1961 hence her comment about it never happening again. She was annoyingly flippant. However by 1980 (when triplets 19, found each other & their study ended) ethics would have been pretty rigorous and a lawsuit beckoning. Almost 40 years after finding each other... only now releasing the data to the ‘research subjects’.

What channel was this on so I can find it please I've been dying to watch it

9pm to 11pm on 4

Ch4 just ending on +1

Barton It was on C4 so should be available on demand soon/now.

I thought at the end they said they’d agreed to release the data to the 2 remaining triplets??
It was such a sad story in the end.

Chilling in its heartlessness.

Brilliant thank you, I hope it does go on 4od or get repeated

The data released was heavily redacted

The films at the end credits, they seemed to be the films made by the researchers. It was a fascinating documentary and so heartbreaking

@murasaki I thought that too, that David seemed to be the happiest in himself

Bugger I wanted to watch that, hope it’s shown on 4od.

Just watched on catch up.
Utterly utterly heartbreaking.
My own Dad also an Eddie committed suicide due to a messed up childhood.
Our children are so precious and their brains so fragile with long lasting implications if damaged.
We should love and cherish our children.
This experiment makes me feel so sad.
For what it's worth I think nature plays some part in our genetic make up but nurture is everything.
I wish see who the boys dad was?

I wonder who ?

ohcarrie the men said in the documentary that when they met their mother she didnt know who the father was. She slept with someone at the college party and she couldn't remember who he was.

Ah thanks @VivaDixie I must of missed that. It's all sad. They looked a bit like their mum as well.

Mengele, indeed. Natasha the research assistant still doesn’t seem to think that Neubauer did anything wrong.