My attention was immediately drawn to “Leashing the Rattlesnake” (SN: 9/27/03, p. 200: Leashing the Rattlesnake). You see, in the late 1970s, as a graduate student at the University of California, Davis, I developed a snake-tethering technique with the assistance of one of the campus veterinarians, Scott E. McDonald. The article falsely attributes rattlesnake leashing to others.
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