This reminds me of the studies of Thalidomide when it was in the testing stage. It was given to patients in an insane asylum, where the inmates not only were not pregnant, but they could hardly be relied on to give an objective account of how it affected them.
That’s what I was told in 1973 when I interviewed a returned POW for the newspaper where I was a reporter. I asked if it was true that the POWs in the Hanoi Hilton were fed rice with worms, and he said, “Sure. But that’s good protein.”
East Asians figured out a long time ago that cutting food into small pieces and stir-frying them used less fuel. Hence no need of knives at the dining table, only in the kitchen.
This reminds me of the studies of Thalidomide when it was in the testing stage. It was given to patients in an insane asylum, where the inmates not only were not pregnant, but they could hardly be relied on to give an objective account of how it affected them.