Why the ‘Still Face’ Experiment by Ed Tronick sucks

I find this experiment very disturbing because: 1) it intentionally upsets the baby; 2) it’s the mother doing it; 3) the mother is deliberately lying, deliberately manipulating her child; 4) the mother was taught to do this or told to do this or paid to do this by a researcher and she obeyed. Thus, both the baby and the mother are harmed by the researcher who should have known better. This experiment violates the Nuremberg Code by experimenting on a human being without their consent. I am sure some good has come from this experiment and the work of Ed Tronick, but I still don’t like it. I posted this because it came up this morning during a conversation with my partner. I do wonder what kind of mother would do this to her baby? And what kind of researcher would entice a mother to do this? It’s good information to have the baby’s distress confirmed, but not at the cost of several layers of inhumane deception. How many times was this done to how many babies? ABN