The best part of believe is the lie

He knew the time he had left was limited, that in a matter of minutes she would wake up, and he would have to tackle his worst enemy yet, her emotions, as well as his own. Stefan faced the emptied needle. It would make it harder for her to fight weakened by the venom of the plant. Giving a sigh once the chair was set up he throw her on with as much care as he could.

It is well-known that women have curious powers to induce men to hysteria think of Rick Santorum's apoplexy during a Senate debate about abortion or violence think of ankle peeking past burka's hem. Less well-known is the power of promiscuous female flies to induce scientists to apparently self-deceptive blindness to scientific facts. To illustrate my point, please consider the curious case against a plot in Angus John Bateman's influential study of how sexual selection the process that results in fancy male traits like the peacock's tail works. The study provided, for the first time, an experimental justification for the double standard and the evolution of bad-boy masculine behavior and good-girl feminine behavior, also known as the adaptive justification for "sex-crazed guys" and "gold-digging gals. Bateman asked two questions of adult fruit flies in small populations: Who mated with whom?

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