I've heard that story. I've yet to see evidence it actually happened though. I don't the experiment with pass a modern ethics panel either.
I've heard that story. I've yet to see evidence it actually happened though. I don't the experiment with pass a modern ethics panel either.
I stand corrected: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/11/03/monkeys-and-in...
parables that didn't happen can still be useful
The parable-replication crisis is real though
They can be, but you need to take care as sometimes they are misleading and can even drive wrong decisions.
Aesop wrote a lot of fables that had contradictory lessons.
I have more than once in life realized that one of the two contradictory lessons was correct for this situation, but in a different one the other was correct...
There's a meta-lesson there.