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A Leap of Faith From the Eiffel Tower

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

Self Experimentation Is a Bad Idea

Barry marshall and verner forceman were self experimenters who won a nobel prize. The tailor franz rikelt, as you might have guessed, was not so lucky. He jumped from the ifel tower but his parachute never looked like unfurling. It's easy to snicker, but is it fair? Wearable parachutes are not an intrinsically stupid idea.

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