Murphy’s law is a whimsical rule that says that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. But in an article in the Journal of Chemical Education, Frank Lambert writes, “Murphy’s law is a fraud.” He also writes, “The second law of thermodynamics is time’s arrow, but chemical kinetics is its clock.” Read Lambert’s article ( j. Chem. Ed., 74(8), 1997, p. 947), and write an essay explaining, in the context of the latter quotation, why Lambert claims that Murphy’s law is a fraud.