While researching what happened to Dr. John C. Lilly's assistant Margaret Howe, I came across this biography of astronomer and exobiologist Carl Sagan by William Poundstone. The site contains an excerpt describing Sagan's interest in Lilly's attempts to communicate with dolphins and how Sagan got Howe involved (after she wouldn't sleep with him).
The excerpt shows the flaws in Lilly's methodology and some of the strange working conditions at his old laboratory in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, where Howe spent a summer trying to teach Peter Dolphin to speak English. It's worth reading for the historical perspective as well as the funny bits.
http://www.williampoundstone.net/Sagan.html
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