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I have known this to happen many times over the years.
I once marked an undergraduate dissertation arguing that music would be a suitable language for first contacting aliens, using only three pieces of evidence (each repeatedly): the poet T. E. Longfellow’s assertion that music is a universal language; the fact that the Beatles were banned in soviet-era Czechoslovakia; and Koko the painting gorilla (whose case, unbeknownst to the student, like all “talking” animals involved serious academic malpractice, including male handlers training Koko to sexually assault female handlers).
It was a thing of beauty. I failed it but was overruled by *ahem* the student’s dissertation supervisor who had encouraged the project.
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