Thank you David Rosenhan and friends for executing what can only be described as pure genius. Claudia Hammond in a series at BBC Radio 4 called Mind Changers has covered the story, "...gaining access to his [Rosenhan's] unpublished personal papers to discover how it changed our understanding of the humna mind, and its impact 40 years on."
This story was also covered on BBC 2 a while ago. David Rosenhan himself was interviewed to give his input on 'The Thud Experiment' in a series called The Trap.
Sure, Rosenhan and his friends got the rough end of the stick, there's no doubt about that. But if he and his friends hadn't done it, we wouldn't have the opportunity to categorically state, with certainty, that psychiatry really is fake, stupid and a fraud.
And thank you Miss Hammond for giving this story even more air time which it justly deserves.
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