Benjamin Franklin’s quest to make farts less malodorous

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Suggestions’s current merchandise on the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s journal pondering the metaphysics of farting – “Is it a factor or an motion?” being the chief query – has drawn quick shrift from reader Man Cox. He believes the creator ought to have used that important technique of philosophical inquiry often known as “wanting it up in a dictionary”. Cox additionally factors out that the topic has beforehand been expounded on by no much less a personage than US author, inventor and all-round genius Benjamin Franklin.

Franklin wrote a complete essay urging his fellow pure philosophers to analyze whether or not they might develop meals …