Now that we're back from the holiday weekend, it's time for a new longread. Last week was sports week, and this week is SCIENCE WEEK! To kick things off is an article about how one of the most essential elements of scientific research -- the lab mouse -- may be leading us astray. The author goes into detail about how the industry of lab mouse mass production has created a mouse with characteristics that may be warping the outcomes of thousands of experiments. We tend to think so much about all the new things we can discover and test that we may be ignoring the problems with our test subjects.
"The Mouse Trap" by Daniel Engber
Published by Slate, November 16, 2011
Check back tomorrow and all next week for more science longreads!
Eric
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