[kevinmchugh]

The strongest conclusions from Rat Park should be that rodent studies are complicated by lab conditions. This probably doesn't sound too controversial (by now anyway). But because of the ideological or personal issues at play, it's easy to draw conclusions about humans from Rat Park.

Put another way, placebo studies show that attention and treatment alone get some level of result and that science is hard, not that sugar pills are a panacea.