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tacocat  ·  2113 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The sacred cows of psychology turn out to be straw men

I think Rat City was an experiment in torture to prove the population explosion would kill us all and was the inspiration for the Secret of NIMH. Rat Park is the study you were thinking of. It's getting play in the recovery community now.

Addiction studies seem particularly hard to conduct. I've been looking for an actual reliable source for the effectiveness of AA for over a year and I can't find one. The rate of its effectiveness ranges from 5% to 95% depending on who you ask. I have given up on finding a number for the purpose of that thing I've been writing and posting here and will go with "no one can agree on its effectiveness" as my answer.





kleinbl00  ·  2113 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You're right. "Rat City" is my local roller derby league.