寻小草和疯和尚一块疯了，说斑竹的妙文是抄来的，欺骗看不懂英文的读者。
【按：用自然界现象或者低等生物界行为模式比附社会行为几乎是食科学不化的理痴的通病，想不到方舟子也患上了。看来国内读者的钱很好骗的，因为这回方舟子也无非再次当搬运家，把英文中可以狗狗到的东西，编译一通，做成不世文章，连基本点子都是照搬原作者的，可惜，原作者理解什么是民主，用词谨慎，行文不失幽默，值得一读，方舟子为了迎合或者为了讽刺，把幽默去掉了，硬要证明自己多么不懂民主，实在是惊叹其人之不智，好好的一个题目，在英文中读来赏心悦目，方舟子编译后，真的是让人感觉吃了蟑螂！方舟子抄袭的英文作品附后，大家看看有了这件作品，再翻翻维基，补上一点教科书上的内容，是不是不动脑筯下面这篇大作就出来了？同志们，一定要学好英文，学好了英文，可以脚踏两只船，把左边船上的往右边搬，可以既赚名气，又赚稿费，何乐而不为呢？终于找到一条终南捷径……原来方舟的意义是这样的……】
【再按：记得数年前方舟子被人揭露抄袭科学杂志，科学杂志最后根据译文判定他没有抄袭，但不符合专业写作的规范，他用科学杂志的评论威胁了揭露他的人一顿，不符合专业写作习惯这一条就直接无视了，当然，也不会改正的了，有趣的是，那则通信还挂在新语丝上。事实上，他可能就没有看懂科学杂志的批评，故而在这里重蹈覆辙。读得懂英文的，看看他的写法与原作者的写法有什么大的区别？引以为鉴。当然，首先忽略他抄袭英文作者的事实，因为他抄得高明，编译一通，真不好直接说他是抄袭，可抵赖性太高了。】
# 北极星 Says:
方舟子翻译水平了得，光明正大地专心搞科普翻译得了。
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Alex Says:
这要不叫抄，我还真不知道怎么才算抄了……方不会又说“我和这个作者看的是同一份原始材料”吧？
明明就是翻译，改一改就变原创了呀。虽然方文比原文多了最后一段引申……汗……
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疯和尚 Says:
哈，哈哈，本来是想骗点稿费顺带讽刺一下“民主”分子，没想到倒把自己编译冒充原创的老底掀翻了。
附：Cockroaches live in a democracy
Jennifer Viegas
Discovery News
Monday, 3 April 2006
Cockroaches govern themselves in a very simple democracy where each insect has equal standing and group consultations precede decisions that affect the entire group, indicates a new study.
The research determines that cockroach decision-making follows a predictable pattern that could explain group dynamics of other insects and animals, such as ants, spiders, fish and even cows.
Cockroaches are silent creatures, save perhaps for the sound of them scurrying over a countertop. They must therefore communicate without vocalising.
"Cockroaches use chemical and tactile communication with each other," says Dr José Halloy, who co-authored the research in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"They can also use vision," says Halloy, a scientist in the Department of Social Ecology at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium.
"When they encounter each other they recognise if they belong to the same colony thanks to their antennae that are ‘nooses’, that is, sophisticated olfactory organs that are very sensitive," he says.
Give me shelter
Halloy tested cockroach group behaviour by placing the insects in a dish that contained three shelters. The test was to see how the cockroaches would divide themselves into the shelters.
After much "consultation", through antenna probing, touching and more, the cockroaches divided themselves up perfectly.
For example, if 50 insects were placed in a dish with three shelters, each with a capacity for 40 bugs, 25 roaches huddled together in the first shelter, 25 gathered in the second shelter, and the third was left vacant.
When the researchers altered this set-up so that it had three shelters with a capacity for more than 50 insects, all the cockroaches moved into the first "house".
A delicate balance
Halloy and his colleagues found that a balance existed between cooperation and competition for resources.
"Cockroaches are gregarious insects [that] benefit from living in groups. It increases their reproductive opportunities, [promotes] sharing of resources like shelter or food, prevents desiccation by aggregating more in dry environments, etc," he says.
"So what we show is that these behavioural models allow them to optimise group size."
The models are so predictable that they could explain other insect and animal group behaviours, such as how some fish and bugs divide themselves up so neatly into subgroups, and how certain herding animals make simple decisions that do not involve leadership.
Important research
Dr David Sumpter, a University of Oxford zoologist, says the new study "is an excellent paper" and "important".
"It looks both at the mechanisms underlying decision-making by animals and how those mechanisms produce a distribution of animals amongst resource sites that optimises their individual fitness," he says.
"Much previous research has concentrated on either mechanisms or optimality at the expense of the other."
For cockroaches, it seems, cooperation comes naturally.