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Nature is not stupid

Watercolour painting of several things. Lemmings jumping off a cliff; a woman clearly suffering whilst giving birth, her partner visibly anxious; a fly agaric; a dog running after its own tail.

"Nature is not stupid" is the slogan of many alternative health practises. Hinting that you should leave healing to natural processes.
I studied biological sciences and beg to differ. Nature is full of crap. Toxic substances, silly and cruel behaviours, stupid "designs", to list but a few. What was mother nature smoking when devising human childbirth? Large head, small hips, surely she could have come up with a better way.
The thing on the bottom right is a (badly drawn) dog running after its own tail. Because animals are indeed proper geniuses.
This drawing is part of the "Sweeping silliness" series; a series taking on wise-sounding yet inane sweeping statements.

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