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Down with the Stanford Prison Experiment: A Links Round-Up

So one of my random but intense opinions is that the Stanford Prison Experiment and its creator, Philip Zimbardo, are unethical as shit and also bad science. If you get me started on the Stanford Prison Experiment, I can expostulate for a good twenty minutes on everything that was wrong with it and how infuriating it is that it continues to garner its unethical creator praise and fame and money. Good, ethical scientists exist! Give them a movie deal, damn! Anyway, here’s a quick run-down on the Stanford Prison Experiment and its many problems. I’m so excited this is in…

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The Widest Moat in the Castle’s Defenses: A Links Round-Up

TIS FRIDAY, and for those of you with jobs that care about this, Memorial Day is creeping ever closer. One more full week and then PART WEEK TIME. While we wait for that to happen, here’s a bunch of cool links to occupy you over the weekend. Ever wondered how the sausage of film and TV casting gets made? The Guardian has a superb article about Nina Gold, the queen of casting. This is a pretty extraordinary excerpt of oral history done by Zora Neale Hurston, an interview with a survivor of a slave ship. George Yancy writes about what…

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