[bionerd]

I don't know if it's just because I'm a biologist but I find this absolutely disgusting. Every living thing is valuable no matter how it looks or how "lowly" it is, even goddamn cockroaches.

I'm not saying these kinds of experiments don't happen in "real" science, of course they do! But to present it like its fun to enslave a creature like that just for entertainment purposes?

This is the worst possible way to educate people (and especially kids!) about the beauty of life and respect to nature.

[morphics]

My thoughts exactly. Turning a living creature into a plaything and masquerading it as educational is just sick. It degrades the creature, and it degrades the science.

[johnchristopher]

I shall add it also degrades human beings when doing it "for fun is" disguised as "a science experiment".

I don't know if it's the case here and I am comfortable seeing this kind of things done in a classroom.

I hope there are more ways to interact with the electronics than an iphone app though.