The Fairly Intelligent Fly!
One day a fairly intelligent fly buzzed around
the web so long without lighting that the spider appeared and said, "Come
on down." But the fly was too clever for him and said, "I never light where
I don't see other flies and I don't see other flies in your house." So
he flew away until he came to a place where there were a great many other
flies. He was about to settle down among them when a bee buzzed up and
said, "Hold it stupid, that's flypaper. All those flies are trapped." "Don't
be silly," said the fly, "they're dancing." So he settled down and became
stuck to the flypaper with all the other flies.
Moral: There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
James Thurber
Another Moral: Some of us want to be with the crowd so badly that we end up in a mess.
What does it profit a fly (or a person) if he escapes the web only to end up in the glue?
MAJORITY: If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
In 1844 a medical doctor named Ignas Phillip Semmelweis, who was assistant director at
the Vienna Maternity Hospital, suggested to the doctors that the high rate of death of
patients and new babies was due to the fact that the doctors attending them were carrying
infections from the diseased and dead people whom they had previously touched. Semmelweis
ordered doctors to wash their hands with soap and water and rinse them in a strong
chemical before examining their patients. He tried to get doctors to wear clean clothes
and he battled for clean wards. However, the majority of doctors disagreed with Semmelweis
and they deliberately disobeyed his orders.
In the late nineteenth century, on the basis of the work by Semmelweis,
Joseph Lister began soaking surgery instruments, the operating
table, his hands, and the patients with carbolic acid. The results were astonishing. What
was previously risky surgery now became routine. However, the majority of doctors
criticized his work also. Today we know that Lister and Semmelweis were right; the
majority of doctors in their day were wrong.
Just because the majority believe one thing does not necessarily mean it is true.
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