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the cancer sniffing dog thing appears to be a case of Clever Hans

julius on Oct 29, 2014 [–]

Did some quick googling. Seems like research so far supports the claim. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_cancer_detection

Is there any research, with different results, missing from the Wikipedia page?

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