Even if they did, in the hospital environment, parents are thinking about the health of their baby--not about the specific kinds of experiments that could be done with their child's blood. "For research" is very broad-- parents didn't know they were consenting to studies about psychiatric illness.

Good question! Typically, in research, consent needs to be specific and informed. The oldest participants in the study were born in 1981, nearly twenty years before full genome sequencing was invented. Parents had no way of understanding what their child's blood samples could be used for.

good catch! we are updating now

& if you were wondering how the researchers developed the vaccine, you can see a picture of a mouse getting flossed @science.org

Hi, I'm a reporter for Science Magazine, covering the iPsych scandal. If you're interested in speaking out about your experience, I would love to hear from you. Feel free to DM me or email me ainampudi@aaas.org.