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Nope. For my kid's elementary school science fair, the classmates that were doing nothing more than collecting survey answers from volunteers had to file a separate human experimentation waiver form for each of their respondents.

After the informational meeting, I told my kid, point blank, "No people. No animals. Plants. How about a nice experiment involving plants?"




Ridiculous. One experiment I did in elementary school had something to do with rocks. Another was seeing how drinks (juice, pop, etc.) ruin teeth (I had a lot of spare baby teeth at that time), and another where I spoon-fed baby food to people to see how they reacted to the taste while blindfolded, nose plugged, etc.

All that without paperwork, and I'm not even very old -- I'm only in my early 20s.




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