mice (was) grandparents who raped and pillaged

[Bengt Richter]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002 17:38:42 +0100, Laura Creighton <lac at strakt.com> wrote:

>My father believes that he found a case where the mice were running the
>experiment and the experimenters for their own benefit.
>
>Some researchers were getting anomalous results.  They were testing
>rats' or mice's attraction to certain substances in the drinking water,
>and found that there was a small bias towards PLAIN DISTILLED WATER.
>This was odd. They kept examining the water to see if there were any
>traces of something else, and noticed A STRONGER bias towards PLAIN
>DISTILLED WATER.  Finally somebody (I think my father) figured out
>what was going on.  The distilled water was stored in the refrigerator,
>to be the correct temperature for some other experiment.  Mice like
>cold drinks in the summertime, too.
>
Or they were smarter about additives than most humans ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter