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Old 08-17-2022, 05:32 AM
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Yes, but the mainstream media isn't reporting on it (so the lemmings are unaware), hmm could it be because Pharma is their biggest advertisement revenue?
The number of times science deniers have used lemmings as an insult without being aware that...

https://www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide

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Lemmings do not commit suicide. However, this particular myth is based on some actual lemming behaviors. Lemmings have large population booms every three or four years. When the concentration of lemmings becomes too high in one area, a large group will set out in search of a new home. Lemmings can swim, so if they reach a water obstacle, such as a river or lake, they may try to cross it. Inevitably, a few individuals drown. But it’s hardly suicide.

So why is the myth of mass lemming suicide so widely believed? For one, it provides an irresistible metaphor for human behavior. Someone who blindly follows a crowd—maybe even toward catastrophe—is called a lemming. Over the past century, the myth has been invoked to express modern anxieties about how individuality could be submerged and destroyed by mass phenomena, such as political movements or consumer culture.
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