[TheForge] Science fair project

Wed Nov 6 15:27:01 2002

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain"
	Schiller

> You'd be surprised.  I believe it was a late 19th century
> naturalist who was arrested on witchcraft (or some such) charges
> in a South American country because he left a jar of caterpillars
> with someone with instructions to take care of them until they
> turned into butterflies!  I think he talked his way out of it.
>
> Bruce
> NJ
>
> >>> [email protected] 11/06/02 12:39PM >>>
> I can't read something like this without wondering whether the farmers had
> observed it but the scientists might not have...
>
> > Early on, for instance, maggots were believed to
> > naturally arise in spoiling meat.  The fact that flies laid eggs
> > on the meat which hatched into maggots hadn't been observed.
>
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