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Today's dose of duh! features a list of food safety myths, the first of which is this classic :

The three-second rule ... if you drop food on the floor, pick it up within three seconds or so and it will be fine to eat.

A Clemson University study came to the same conclusion last year, back when it was still the five-second rule. Either the microbes are getting slower or the people are, which amounts to the same thing really.