The Boiling Frog

I recently read an NPR article about emerging diseases. I’ve shared the link, but I suggest that you not read it unless you’re in the mood for something scary and/or depressing. The thing that interested me particularly, though, and which provided a welcome distraction from the scary/depressing part, was a comment that one of the scientists in the article made. He said something about “boiling the frog.” It seemed such an odd choice of words to me, and it stuck with me.

The next day I mentioned it to my husband, who thought the phrase sounded sort of familiar. He looked it up, and then shared what he found with me. According to Wikipedia, the idea of the Boiling Frog is that if you throw a frog into boiling water it will jump out, but if you slowly raise the temperature you can boil it to death before it realizes the danger. It’s not a happy thought or even true, but it does make a pretty good metaphor!

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