It's not that it was a satisfying theory, it's that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/
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It's not that it was a satisfying theory, it's that it was misinformation spread by the propaganda machine at the time.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carrots-cant-help-you-see-in-the-dark-heres-how-world-war-ii-propaganda-campaign-popularized-the-myth-28812484/