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You only need a citation for the idea that apes aren't able to speak sign language?
by pegasus 1y ago
You only need a citation for the idea that apes aren't able to speak sign language?
- acdha 1y agoThey claimed fraud by a single person, with zero replication. That’s both testable so they should be able to support it. At the very least, more than one researcher was involved and more than one ape was alleged to have learned ASL. There is a better discussion about what our threshold is for speech, along with our threshold for saying that research is fraud vs. mistaken, but we don’t fix sloppiness by engaging in more of it.
- galaxyLogic 1y agoSO why wasn't the research continued further if results were good? My assumption is it was because of the - Fear of the Planet of Apes!