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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/ > A common expression would have us believe that ‘y
by kolpa 9y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4562214/
> A common expression would have us believe that ‘you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar’. But this is not true in the case of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster (xkcd, 2007).
Yes, NIH cited XKCD
https://xkcd.com/357/ https://xkcd.com/357/
- hueving 9y agoMissing the forest for the trees.
- sah2ed 9y agoI don't think that applies here since the poster didn't disagree with the excerpt, they only pointed to a correction -- the fact that an aspect of conventional wisdom had been rendered untrue via research. The link to xkcd-inspired research was useful.