Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for October 10, 2016

Gracie and Baldo’s mother has passed on; so señora Bermudez’s back cannot be broken. Their grandaunt Carmen’s back on the other hand…

Uh, didn’t Sergio recently purchase a 50 inch flat screen television a month, or so ago?

Superstitions.

and very unfortunately, some people actually got $$ to investigate this.No wonder the average person(IQ less than 100) thinks that scientists are just greedy buggers

And all done on YOUR tax dollar.

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I recall a case some years ago, where some of these scientists got a grant to study the sex life of screwworm flies. The flies laid their eggs in the tiny inevitable scratches on livestock, with debilitating, and occasionally fatal results.

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They spent time and money reproducing discoveries already made because they didn’t dare advertise for help in searching the available scientific literature. Their final result was that males were highly promiscuous, mating with a large number of females, while the females only mated once. By sterilizing males with radiation, all the females they mated with would never reproduce.

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The study was put into effect with the result that the screwworm population collapsed and the taxes on increased income from increased production paid for the study in two years. Further, the same pattern was found to work on fruit flies and other economically devastating species.

I never even heard of the absolutely absurd 5 minute rule until I was in my fifties! I was always taught that if something fell on the floor it was thrown out and never eaten. Ick.