Criticism
Many of his experiments would be considered unethical today, and their nature and Harlow's descriptions of them heightened awareness of the treatment of laboratory animals and thus contributed to today's ethics regulations. Gene Sackett of the University of Washington in Seattle, who was one of Harlow's doctoral students, has stated that he believes the animal liberation movement in the U.S. was born as a result of Harlow's experiments.
Willam Mason, another of Harlow's students who continued deprivation experiments after leaving Wisconsin, has said that Harlow "kept this going to the point where it was clear to many people that the work was really violating ordinary sensibilities, that anybody with respect for life or people would find this offensive. It's as if he sat down and said, 'I'm only going to be around another ten years. What I'd like to do, then, is leave a great big mess behind.' If that was his aim, he did a perfect job."
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