Ethics

About Those Taliban-Trained Monkey Warriors

By Ed Brayton

As you might imagine, that was a bunch of nonsense that the Worldnutdaily and Fox News both fell for. Says one expert:

Christopher Coe, director of the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology, also is quoted as saying, "While you could train a monkey to shoot a gun, I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere in the neighborhood after that. I rather doubt you could trust its aim," he said. "In addition, the noise would certainly scare most animals and make them stop."

CNN did a rather amusing video about the whole thing:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 20, 2010 (boomark / email).