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>Boiling frogs and all that. This is a myth[1]. Not being true doesn't make the idea wrong, but it is not a metaphor rooted in reality. >While some 19th-centu
by toohotatopic 6y ago
>Boiling frogs and all that.
This is a myth[1]. Not being true doesn't make the idea wrong, but it is not a metaphor rooted in reality.
>While some 19th-century experiments suggested that the underlying premise is true if the heating is sufficiently gradual, according to contemporary biologists the premise is false: a frog that is gradually heated will jump out.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
- Jailbird 6y agoThanks for the link. I had never looked into it but had always just assumed it was fiction in the first place.