Conspiracy Theories Review

This is my 57th podcast. It is currently ranked number 67. The episode I listened to was titled, "The Secret Twin Study: Files Sealed until 2065." The episode was released April 15. This was a really interesting story about a study conducted by researchers colluding with an adoption agency. In the study, they separated twins and sent them to different families of different backgrounds. They didn't tell the families that the twins had a twin so they never knew. As part of the agreement to adopt these children the parents were told they were part of a study, the researchers would come visit the house and ask their children questions periodically. But the parents never knew they had twins. Obviously, the study is super immoral as you shouldn't harm people to learn Robot Erasmus style. As the kids grew older several of them learned they had twins. There was a big backlash against the study. The study was never published and it is sealed until 2065. The narrator of the podcast kept asking why the study hasn't been published and why it is sealed but it seems obvious to me that it wasn't released because it was already getting backlash before it was released. It seems the immorality of the study has been exposed and I don't think it goes deeper but more details would continue to get people angry. The narrator kept acting as if there was a deeper conspiracy because that is the theme of the show. I don't think there is a deeper conspiracy because the records can be recovered by the people in the study though it isn't the easiest process. If the researchers were hiding something more nefarious than what has already been exposed they could destroy the records instead of sealing them at Yale. It was an interesting listen. I dock it one point for going too deep on the conspiracy when the story itself was interesting. It was not needed to go deeper than that. I give this 4/5 for being an interesting listen.