To jimmyjohnsen and tjc
About this www.kidcheck.de
I cannot see that I have misinterpreted anything about this program. I too think the program has ended by now. But still it is an example of a recent real program where healthy children were invited to undergo a long examination with some purpose. It is an example of something that happens repeatively, namely scientific programs that invite children do undergo thorrough medical examinations.
This particular program told the parents that they could find undetected orthopedic weaknesses that could cause problems sooner or later for the kid, and prescribed remedies weakness. But it is not necessary to perform such long examinations for this purpose. Like you, also I think this was basically a university study with purposes not told very much about to the parents.
But I have seen numerous times that such scientific programs are going on for some time, subject children to lengthy exams, and after a period the programs end, and then new programs popup.
I know about another German program that performed very long exams on kids, where healthy kids were invited to participate and also the parents got examined. In that case the purpose was to find hidden allergies. But the webite of that program has been taken down, because I could not find it back.
It looks like the Max Plank Institut in Germany stand behind many such programs