“Because today it’s so hard to get anything past the ethics boards, compared to the good old days, when you could just electrocute people and call it science. You can hardly do anything these days!” – University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman, author of 59 Seconds.
He was joking around… I think. 😉
via The Self-Help Psychologist Is In – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com.