Triplets C4 Thursday 28 Feb 9.00Pm

[centrino]

Did anyone watch this?.Follows the lives of 3 triplet brothers separated at birth
but chance brings them together at age 19.
Well worth a watch.

[Mamyalynne]

It was fascinating and equally disturbing.

[tamborine]

The doctor investigating them was Austrian; my thoughts went to similar in nazi camps, especially as he refused results of his investigations.

Sadly one triplet committed suicide.

[pastafreak]

Yes, I watched it. Like Mamya I found it to be extremely disturbing, even though I'd already guessed the reason they'd been separated.

[campbellking]

What was really disturbing was the complete lack of remorse from the people involved in the research

[DarceyK123]

Oh i missed it, why were they seperated?

[Toorak]

To be included in an experiment looking at the influence of nature vs nurture

[DarceyK123]

Thanks Toorak, that sounds interesting,

[Mamyalynne]

Three Identical Strangers is the title if you want to look it up.

[Peter Pedant]

o god missed one had committed suicide
yes I did see it

I was wondering what the back-story was .....
One super guy gets a huge amount of money to research separation of twins and triplets ( perhaps it as only one - identical triplets given up for adoption are pretty incommon)
follows the children up for ..... x years
and never prints the results !

The one who knows a bit - leaves early and goes to Switzerland and no one else is on hand to give a later view.

It COULD have been abandoned - after the Tuskegee experiments - afros with syphilis were divided into two groups - treat and dont treat
wow ! really ?

[Peter Pedant]

Burt printed a paper on separation of ten pairs of twins in the Bristol area
and it doesnt matter what he wrote because .....

50 y later a fella advertised for the split twins for late follow up and ..... didnt get one reply - nor anyone who knew about the research
and concluded that - - Burt had made the whole thing up

[retrocop]

Smacked of Joseph Mengele. Only in the U.S.

[Peter Pedant]

// Smacked of Joseph Mengele. Only in the U.S.//

now who said: o god dont you read what you write ?
r - - -r - - - r nope aint got it

Mengele was a Nazi doctor so it wasnt only in the US - oh and they had the doctors' trial for war crimes in the late forties innit? - yeah but no but I am sure you knew M was German

[ummmm]

Sad ending.