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minus-squareBakerBagel@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·edit-22 days agoJacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do? Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.
minus-squarekunegis@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoSure, let’s write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.
Jacobs is a professor at the Princeton University Neuroscience Institute, and in 1976 he and a team from the university’s psychology department set out to study how LSD affected felines. That might seem like a bizarre research topic, but hey, it was 1976, they had this acid, they had these cats—what else were they going to do?
Lots of wild experiments giving drugs to animals.
Sure, let’s write a proposal for LSD-based feline experimentation, give the cats just catnip and keep the LSD for ourselves.