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Boiling Frog Syndrome
During the late nineteenth century several European scientists attempted to establish, and later contradict, a hypothesis generally known as the Boiling Frog Syndrome. Consequently, the Boiling Frog Syndrome has become a widespread didactic anecdote demonstratively used for subordinating, ignoring, or somehow neglecting changes to the supporting environment such that some unexpected and perilous event subsequently occurs. And regardless whether or not this is a fallacy, its premise offers an excellent illustration of how diminutive changes in any environment can conceal or camouflage themselves at the risk of a variety of threats. Certainly of little surprise, a frog placed in boiling water will leap to safety at the first opportunity if

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