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My mum insists that we, at home, always cut off the green bit & splice the strawberry in case it had a slug in it.<\/p>\nMy mum insists that we, at home, always cut off the green bit & splice the strawberry in case it had a slug in it.<\/p>\n
For Ian Wacogne<\/a> it’s sitting with his back against a radiator<\/a>.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n Well, in my case it’s so that you can’t eat a slug … that’s managed to get into the strawberry without having left a hole \/ magic taped it together afterward .. garbage, yup?<\/p>\n I asked my mum about it. She said that my grandma had told her she had eaten a slug in a strawberry when she was little, but that no, she didn’t remember eating the slug, and actually, on recollection, it was that she had\u00a0nearly<\/em> eaten a slug in a strawberry …<\/p>\n Such ‘strawberry stories’ are prevalent and problematic. They exist in clinical medicine, research and publishing. Some we’ve heard recently:<\/p>\n “You can’t publish fetal or animal papers in ADC F&N” … You can<\/a><\/p>\n “You need NHS Ethics to involve patients in developing research studies & protocols” … You don’t<\/a><\/p>\n