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The truth behind the Amazon mystery seeds
- miles 5y agoTL;DR: Combination of brushing scams and forgotten, delayed seed orders.
- tc313 5y agoThe article actually casts doubt on the idea that it could be both, calling it “improbable.”
- miles 5y agoReading the entire piece, or at least the surrounding text, one finds that it is merely a rhetorical device, not some final word. Here are a few more snippets for those too busy or disinclined to read the whole thing: "It was now clear to me that at least some of these packets were definitely forgotten orders. ... We couldn’t always come to a definitive conclusion. ... the USDA clearly remained unconvinced by my arguments. ... I certainly don’t rule out there being messier aspects to what happened last summer that remain to be uncovered."
- sovok_x 5y agoIrrespective if it's a random thing, it still gives valuable insight into possibilities and crowd psychology.
- solar-mariner 5y agoAnd yet every case they were able to investigate to conclusion was a forgotten order, and not a single case could be confirmed as brushing.