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The amount of grants that you receive in modern zoology is directly proportional to the sweetness in your discourse, the size of the eyes and the density of the fur in your subject

> Housed in a few modest rooms adjacent to a botanical collection and the floor’s only bathroom, the laboratory is the world’s largest university collection of parasites.

> the Manter Lab only receives enough funding to employ the two men

This explains why perfectly. Researchers that choose this live basically in poverty, so why would you to encourage your son to follow that career?.

This and the two billions of videos of cats on internet that everybody consumes actively all the time. Try to earn sympathy and views with a samba dancing flatworm compilation instead. It only works one or none times.




Maybe we could try a hybrid pitch? “We need to protect these cute, furry little dudes…from parasites. Giv money pls.”


"Parasites evolved for millions of years in this planet have exactly the same right to exist and to be saved as any other earthlings. Stop hitting me just because you don't like the truth, please". More realistic.

They are a big part of earth biodiversity and provide services to the ecosystem or the host. Services that sometimes no other can provide. Some parasites can clean in theory the host body of poisonous mercury. Could we train parasites to eat cankerous tumors in the future?




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