Hi Bill, Humorists and cartoonists have a long-standing tradition of poking fun at cruel researchers who abuse lab animals. At night in the lab, when the researcher has gone home, the crafty clever animals conspire to jinx the experiment and take their sweet revenge on their human.
Oddly enough, this humor has come true. Statistical epidemiology allows ethical investigations based on observation of humans instead of interventionistic control of lab animals. But we all know that statistics is "sadistics." Best regards, Matthew
