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> Ethical note: No specific license was required for this work. The duration of any single experiment was so short that each crab never reached dangerous level
by dwohnitmok 6y ago
> Ethical note: No specific license was required for this work. The duration of any single experiment was so short that each crab never reached dangerous level, that the crabs were kept in comfortable condition, and that after all experiments the crabs were released to their natural habitats. Furthermore, on visual inspection,no crabs appeared to have been injured or adversely affected by the experiments.
The way this ethical note is phrased seems to suggest the experimenters basically went to the beach and picked up a bunch of crabs and then released them again, as opposed to any sort of standardized procurement process, which I find amusing.
- dalbasal 6y agoIt makes me imagine the experiment taking place in a sand hole that they dug on saturday morning.
- ineedasername 6y agoIt's particularly amusing given that, once the experiment was done, it would have been perfectly acceptable to toss them all into a boiling pot of water at a local restaurant. As a matter of fact, loosely construed, that might be what they means by "natural habitat"