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Re:A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a s... by runarb on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:16AM (#10500508)
I really wish that the whole Rat Park experiment this video relies on had been true, and a cure for addiction was that easy, but as I understand it the scientist behind the Rat Park experiment falsified the data to spark a public debate.

The idea was great, but further studies failed to reproduce the original results and all major science journals rejected the paper.

We are not making it easier to handle this big issue of addiction by relying on fals or unreproducible data.

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Re:A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a s... by eric_h on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @12:47PM (#10501171)
Do you have a source that thoroughly supports the debunking of the Rat Park experiment? This is the first I'd heard that it was unreproducible and the result of falsified data.
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Re:A group of middle-aged whites in the U.S. is dying at a s... by rustynails on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @11:53AM (#10500766)
It's not all doom and gloom, there's still confirmation that environment and drug addiction are linked. Here's a link to the rat park experiment that touches on this topic, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
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