Summary :
Tim Waldle documentary film Three Identical Strangers (2018), reveals a secret investigation on the development of genetically identical siblings who were separated on purpose so as to be raised in different social contexts. Since it´s premiere, the exposed experiment has caused a series of rejections among public opinion and mental health professionals. This paper focuses in the arguments of psychiatrists Leon Hoffman and Lois Oppenheim in defense of the experiment and against the film, so as to analyzse if their arguments are consistent, or on the contrary, they pretend to legitimate an ethically unacceptable investigation.
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