Authored by Kay Rubacek via The Epoch Times,
Drop a frog into boiling water, and it will scramble out immediately. But place that same frog in cool water, heat it slowly, and degree by degree, it will never notice the danger until it is too late.
Most of us accept this without question.
The problem is that the story is not true.
It traces back to a German physiologist named Friedrich Goltz, who in 1869 conducted a series of experiments with a rather unusual purpose: to determine whether the soul resided in the brain or the spinal cord. He removed portions of a frog’s brain and observed what the animal could no longer do without it.
He found that a frog without its brain would sit placidly in slowly heating water and not attempt to escape.However, a normal frog, with its brain intact, would feel the rising temperature and get out.
That finding was passed around over the decades that followed, stripped of its context, and reshaped into the cautionary tale we now all repeat.
later biologists confirmed the original finding:A frog in cold water will jump out before it gets too hot.
The frog that stays in hot water is the one that can no longer think for itself.
We have been repeating that story for more than 150 years as settled truth, because it felt right, without ever stopping to ask whether it was actually true.
Source: ZeroHedge News
