“You know,” said my fellow dog researcher, “I don’t think French bulldogs really are French.” This…

&ldquo;You know,&rdquo; said my fellow dog researcher, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think French bulldogs really are French.&rdquo; This was the kind of cutting-edge discovery that we had to keep from the public at large, and I told her so. She responded by pointing to the microphone on my desk, which had inadvertently been set to &ldquo;on&rdquo; during the course of our conversation. Any one of the…