This was an intentional frame.
This inferno of contagion destroyed thousands of societies and millions of people, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego, from California to New England, from the Amazon rainforest to the tundra of Hudson B...
They use the label anthropomorphization as a cover, because they’re scared that maybe we’re all just animals after all!
There was a pause while Pendergast considered this. I prefer hypocrisy to poverty. Come to think of it, there is a rationale. Leng didn’t make his money from killing. He made it from speculating in ra...
The question is, do we really need talking chimpanzees? The supporters of the project tell us they are unlocking the secrets of human language. But Sen. Proxmire—backed up by an eminent-scientist from...
The people of Honduras don’t have a clear cultural identity. We have to start learning more about our past in order to create a brighter future.
The monkey, as I understood it, is to stay indefinitely. I returned hatless. R. was much put out. I pray God bring her peace.
The man was angry and acting like a bully, as policemen do. His name was Russo. Bill Russo. Well, I’d known Bill Russo for years, and he was a bit, shall we say, limited. He knew Sandy, or should have...
So, after half a million, what did the chimps say? Well, not much, when you really analyze it. That wasn’t the point, for God’s sake! And the scientists who supported us were afraid to object. They di...
She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.
Mr. Ozmian, said Pendergast, in his quietest, smoothest voice, we have bad news: your daughter is dead. The man looked as if he’d just been shot. He actually staggered and had to grip the side of a ch...
Most detection is simple.
Jennie never did reject me, however. Oh no. She loved me to the very end. Her love for me was more powerful than anything the Archibalds could undermine.
Jennie had a set of values, but she didn’t realize they were different values from the rest of us. She never could understand why she was always in trouble. In the end, I mean. She didn’t know what it...
In the twentieth century the Mormon Church sent a number of well-funded archaeologists to Mexico and Central America to try to confirm the stories through site excavations. Although this resulted in v...
In the most deadly variety of smallpox, the hemorrhagic form, called the bloody pox or black pox, the skin turns a deep purple or takes on a charred look, and comes off in sheets. The victim often ble...
I pointed out that in no way could this be called an experiment. What were the objectives? Where was the control? What was the hypothesis? And I said he was naive to think there might not be any harm...
I believe that we humans, in teaching chimpanzees and gorillas ASL, stumbled upon a natural communication system already in use. We just enhanced it. This is just my opinion and I wouldn’t dare put it...
Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.
Hezekiah Pendergast, Constance continued, was the great-great-grandfather of Aloysius—and a first-rate mountebank. He began his career as a snake-oil salesman for traveling medicine shows and, over ti...