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Read the wiki article again. It cites sources for the truth of the boiling frog metaphor.

• Psyonic 17y ago
  Some, yes, but all from over 100 years ago. The contemporary scientific opinion is very much against this "fact." http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/01/frog.html http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/01/frog.html
  • rsheridan6 17y ago
    The modern experimenters failed to find the original articles, since they were published in German before last Thursday. So they heated the water too fast, leading to their result. The ages of the experiments are irrelevant here because 1) 19th century Germans had thermometers and heaters that were more than adequate for this task. We have no technological advantage over them in this regard 2) The modern experiments weren't building on or refining the old ones because the experimenters weren't aware of them. We only see farther than those who came before because we're standing on their shoulders. If we can't find their shoulders, we don't have that advantage. There's more about this in the discussion page between two wikipedia edit warriors, on of whom, coincidentally, has the same username that I am using on this site right now.
• scott_s 17y ago
  Ha, Wikipedia articles fit the same concept as mesofacts.
• lpellis 17y ago
  From wikipedia: "In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but his intact frogs attempted to escape the water" I wonder what did they expected to happen?