Saturday, April 15, 2006

 

From The Horse's Mouth

In this week's Village Voice I cover a bizarre 1999 novel that revealed the existence of the University of Iowa's "Monster Study" -- in which orphans were experimentally induced to stutter in the 1930s -- two years before it broke as a national scandal in the San Jose Mercury News.

The book was self-published by a Wisconsin horse farm, and that isn't even the beginning of the weirdness involved...



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