Son-Of-A-Bitch Mouse Solves Maze Researchers Spent Months Building
“IOWA CITY, IA—University of Iowa neuroscientists studying spatial learning and the effects of stress on memory announced Tuesday that a little son-of-a-bitch mouse ruined an experiment on cognitive performance by effortlessly navigating a maze that researchers spent nearly a year designing and constructing.The test subject, a common house mouse, briskly traversed the complicated wooden maze in under 30 seconds or, according to the study’s final report, roughly 1/8,789,258 as long as it took the lab to secure funding for the experiment.”
Another classic piece from The Onion, of course. Sheds more light on scientific inquiry…
“Had we obtained any usable data, perhaps that information would have led to the development of a cure for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s,” said Dr. William Eng, who led the team responsible for creating the maze…
“It is regrettable to spend such a tremendous amount of money studying mammalian neuropathways, only to have some hotshot mouse ruin everything,” Eng said. “However, we have compiled substantial data on this species’s ability to breeze right in and destroy an entire postdoctoral legacy.”
This is classic! Keep it comin’! More research of this type, and I’m sure we’ll find cure for Alzheimer’s and a dozen other diseases.
