So I was at work today and a chap dropped in with a "critical review" of a psychology research article. The profs had given them a short list of eminently criticisable articles.
Just look at the title of this article, and think about what this involves.
Quote:
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its Effects on a Male Asiatic Elephant
Louis Jolyon West, Chester M. Pierce and Warren D. Thomas
Science
New Series, Vol. 138, No. 3545 (Dec. 7, 1962), pp. 1100-1103
(article consists of 4 pages)
Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.2307/1709491
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1709491
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Spoiler/warning:
the elephant dies
It was a hopelessly badly done experiment, using a single elephant for which they had established no behavioural baseline and which already had a tusk infection, which they shot with a tranquiliser dart loaded with 3,000 times the human dose. I was too busy to get the details, but the poor beast seemed to be suffering, was given some other drug, and soon died, apparently of asphyxiation. Nothing was learned, except not to let freaked out trippers shoot loads of LSD into elephants to see what would happen.