Most modern societies also worship corn - they just process the hell out of it first.

I, for one, welcome our high fructose overlords.

I don't know if it is the MSNBC write up or the "experiment" itself

Brembs did not think flies had free will, per se. He also stressed their results did not suggest free will existed in humans or elsewhere. "We only showed that brains might possess a faculty which free will could potentially be based on," Brembs said.