Categories: Comparisons, Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism and extended metaphor in public science disocurse:
"Microbes, like us, need a good night's sleep. And if you give them that time to sleep, then they have a cleaning team that comes out at night, they have a shift change, so scavengers come tidying up your gut lining and make your gut this perfectly-oiled machine that our ancestors had but we've lost."
Prof. Tim Spector
Tim Spector (Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London) was speaking on an episode of BBC's' Just One Thing – with Michael Mosley'
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