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People, it was the 70s


The various behavior that is considered by us today as nefarious at best was commonly acceptable in 1980. These were affluent hippies, and the science is now 30 years old. The movie is depressing to me because the project confirmed that it is impossible to speak to a chimp :(

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That's right. Until the late 80's most research was carried out by scientists banging their heads on sundials and slapping each other with fish. These guys might look like privileged, amateurish, self indulgent incompetents but actually they were ahead of the curve.

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lol.

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