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Relevant West Wing dialog: MARGARET Let me ask you this...Red meat has been found to cause cancer in white rats. Maraschino cherries have been found to cause
by peeters 11y ago
Relevant West Wing dialog:
MARGARET
Let me ask you this...Red meat has been found to cause cancer in white rats. Maraschino cherries have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Cellular phones have been found to cause cancer in white rats. Has anyone examined the possibility that cancer might be hereditary in white rats?
DR. GRIFFITH
Let me tell you something, I'm not 100% sure we've ruled that out.
- tormeh 11y agoReminds me of a lecturer I had in a neuroscience class that informed us that "no one really checked whether all neurons had the same constants as the ones from the giant squid, but just assumed they did" (or something similar). Apparently anyone who thought of it assumed that something so blindingly obvious would already have been examined by someone else. It took decades before the error was found.