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Don't we have diseases to cure, cancers to heal?

• dtparr 10y ago
  What if the results were worse? Would it not have been important to know that farts were actually contaminating a sterile operating room, leaving patients at greater risk of an infection?
• jonwachob91 10y ago
  The discovery of penicillin was an accident. If there was even a 1% chance that the study of farts could lead to the next great drug it was worth it.
• derekp7 10y ago
  I don't know what it is about this type of comment, but whenever someone says something like this it really infuriates me. Yes, freedom of speech and opinion and all, but my first thought is "How dare you criticize someone else for wasting time on something you don't feel is important. Unless you've never, once in your life, done a sub-optimal or unnecessary task. Go to a movie lately? Why didn't you send that money to a food bank? Why didn't you use that time to do some small piece of work to save the world?"
  • Chris2048 10y ago
    desireco42 put a lot of hard work and effort into that criticism, who are you to say it's no good?