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by hzlatar on 1/10/23, 1:06 PM with 1 comments

  • by dalke on 1/10/23, 1:23 PM

    The "always mount a scratch monkey" account, at https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/scrtch.monkey , is a very corrupted version of the story. See https://edp.org/monkey.htm .

    There was no "Mabel", no swimming, and no asphyxiation. The electrical shocks caused all five monkeys to convulse, and three died.

    This re-telling papers over the tragedy of what happened, both for the monkeys and for the service engineer who unknowing harmed and killed them.