From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Thu Dec 19 2002 - 17:38:37 MST
The Christmas issue of British Medical Journal always contains some of
the stranger papers, including many likely to get Ig Nobel prizes. Check
out http://bmj.com/current.shtml
Just listen to some of the titles:
Admissions for myocardial infarction and World Cup football: database
survey
Controlled prospective study of faecal occult blood screening for
colorectal cancer in Bury, black pudding capital of the world
Ice cream evoked headaches (ICE-H) study: randomised trial of
accelerated versus cautious ice cream eating regimen
Sex -- can you get it right? (how to tell male and female infants apart
from their faces)
Shapely centrefolds? Temporal change in body measures: trend analysis
(Playboy centerfolds appear to get more androgynous over time)
Four futures for scientific and medical publishing (Scenarios for
scientific publishing - Marge, Homer, Lisa and Bart World!)
The mummy's curse: historical cohort study
Are ethical principles relative to time and place? A Star Wars
perspective on the Alder Hey affair
(Dr Luke Skywalker and his mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi)
Visible signs of illness from the 14th to the 20th century: systematic
review of portraits
Collective terms for doctors
(A culture of microbiologists and a rash of dermatologists)
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