Why It's Now Illegal to Give Dolphins Acid (For Science)

About this episode

The episode discusses the unethical experiments conducted on dolphins involving LSD to teach them English.

This is the story of two scientists who pushed the envelope of both good taste and morality as they experimented with dolphins. The idea was simple. Give dolphins LSD and then see if we can teach them to speak English. The results were not so simple or clear-cut. But they were certainly ridiculous... and criminal.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: iHeartPodcasts

Topics covered

• dolphin experiments
• LSD
• science ethics
• communication
• true crime
• ridiculous stories

Keywords

• dolphins
• LSD
• experiments
• science
• communication
• ethics
• true crime

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: iHeartPodcasts

Products: LSD

Books & works: Why It's Now Illegal to Give Dolphins Acid

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