Dear Colleagues,

    This is to announce a new paper in the current issue of Anthrozoos entitled "Dolphin Assisted Therapy: More flawed data and more flawed conclusions" co-authored by myself and Scott Lilienfeld. In this paper we review all of the peer-reviewed DAT studies that were published since our 1998 paper and come to the same conclusion that there is no scientific basis for claims made by proponents of DAT.

    A pdf of the paper is attached.

    The journal website is: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/anthroz

    You may also go to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society websites for a copy of the paper and further information and news on this current issue:

    http://www.wdcs.org/

    or

    http://www.whales.org/

    Thank you.

Regards,

Lori Marino

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Lori Marino, Ph.D.
Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program
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