>> "true story or not, his published research with rhesus monkeys, in my opinion, makes the point", I couldn't disagree more.
While the particular experiment may or may not have ever occurred, from what we know about the science of behaviorism, the story does make sense.
In real life, you can't spray the monkeys once and have this occur; however, with sufficient repetition, one would certainly expect it to (see: Pavlov).
The same can be said of many other experiments. Like paying unemployment benefits, for example, We know, with 100% certainty, that paying people not to work will result in more people not working. We know that giving people free food will result in them not buying their own food.
I often laugh out loud at liberals claiming others are ignorant about matters of science when they conveniently ignore this, one of the most fundamental sciences of all. |
