Research - Do The Damn Research!

I saw a story this morning. I’ll tell it to you in my own words.

A Scottish farmer working his fields heard faint cries coming from swampland on the edge of his land. He dropped his tools and raced over to the swamp. There, he saw a lad mired in the black, stinking muck, struggling to get out, but slowly sinking deeper.

The farmer dragged the boy from the swamp, took him home, cleaned him up a little, warmed him through and made sure he could find his way home.

The farmer thought no more about the episode.

A day or so later, a carriage pulled up at his little cottage and a well-dressed gentleman alighted from the carriage. The farmer opened the door and invited the man in.

“You saved my son’s life,” the gentleman said. “I must repay you.”

“No, sir, there’s no need. I did what any man would do.”

The gentleman looked about the cottage. The farmer had the bare essentials for living but no frivolities, no unnecessary items and the gentleman assumed he was a man of simple tastes and indeed, needed for nothing.

The gentleman’s eyes then rested upon the farmer’s son.

“Allow me to put your boy through school so he can become a man you can be proud of. You saved my son, allow me to help yours.”

An agreement was made and the boy was sent off to school.

A number of years later, Alex, the farmer’s son graduated and became a doctor. He took to research and made a name for himself. Alex Fleming discovered Penicillin and became Sir Alexander Fleming.

That is not quite the end of the story.

The gentleman’s name was Sir Randolph Churchill and his son, Winston was the boy Alex’s father saved from a cold, frightening and lingering death.

However, the soaking in the swamp may have begun a life-long tendency to pneumonia. Winston took ill and sent for Sir Alex to bring his newly developed medicine.

The Fleming family twice saved Sir Winston Churchill’s life.

Unfortunately, this is all a myth. I did a little more research on this story because I thought it would be an awesome one for Steemit.

It is, as I said, all bunkum and made-up.
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The moral of this story is that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Don't make Steemit the next Facebook. There's a reason so many of us have migrated from there - one of the reasons (for me anyway) is that it's way too easy to click and share without checking stuff out.

Yes, I checked that story out, but not before clicking the share button. Now I have to go back and undo it all, telling everyone that read/watched the video that it's wrong.

Don't fall into that swamp, people, let's be careful out there :)

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