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Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
- jonwachob91 10y agoLesson of the day, don't work in a clean room naked.
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- xor_null 10y agoThat is so awesome on so many levels.....
- Zuider 10y agoNot if the experiment takes place in an elevator....
- winteriscoming 10y agoAaargh!! Too late, wish I had known this a few minutes back
- happy-go-lucky 10y ago> But the results of the experiment should not be considered alarming, because neither type of bacterium is harmful. In fact, they're similar to the ‘friendly’ bacteria found in yoghurt. :)
- tmysl 10y agoso you are saying we can make our own yoghurt using this method?
- beaconstudios 10y agothat's one biohacking experiment I'm in no rush to try out.
- huntersbellend 10y agoyou can make it with your own vagina's yeast, at least: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/vagina-yogurt_n_6661792.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/vagina-yogurt_n_666... (nsfw, apparently)
- hueving 10y ago>you can make it with your own vagina Where does someone get one of these? Check your privilege! ;)
- M_Grey 10y agoI seem to remember that there is a cured meat product... salami maybe, which was shown to be improved when cultured with um... baby shit. Ah yes, here it is: http://www.livescience.com/43465-baby-poop-sausage-probiotic.html http://www.livescience.com/43465-baby-poop-sausage-probiotic...
- mirekrusin 10y agoCan you call it organic?
- strictnein 10y agoAmusing that this is sitting just under the "Bare bottom simplest example of machine learning in TensorFlow" story at the moment.
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- phasnox 10y agoYou must admit this arouses your curiosity. I mean why the infections are more likely to occur if the subject is naked? What's the difference? Is it not what HN is about?
- UhUhUhUh 10y agoAt least one filtering mesh. Hopefully two.
- nstj 10y agoI don't want to butt in on your thread but I noticed the same thing
- grabcocque 10y agoDid this win an Ig Nobel and if not, why not?
- mabbo 10y agoDidn't publish. As far as I know, the Ig's are for published research only.
- jwilk 10y agoIt's not on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners . However, Karl Kruszelnicki did receive Ig Nobel Prize for his research on belly button fluff.
- bazzargh 10y agoThis was from the BMJ Christmas issue - every year they publish a 2-week special full of nonsense like this. As it happens, 4 of the papers in BMJ Christmas Issues have gone on to win Ig Nobels: http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6679 http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6679 - Effect of ale, garlic, and soured cream on the appetite of leeches (winner 1994) - Magnetic resonance imaging of male and female genitals during coitus and female sexual arousal (1999) - Sword swallowing and its side effects (2006) - Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis (2012)
- desireco42 10y agoDon't we have diseases to cure, cancers to heal?
- dtparr 10y agoWhat if the results were worse? Would it not have been important to know that farts were actually contaminating a sterile operating room, leaving patients at greater risk of an infection?
- jonwachob91 10y agoThe discovery of penicillin was an accident. If there was even a 1% chance that the study of farts could lead to the next great drug it was worth it.
- derekp7 10y agoI don't know what it is about this type of comment, but whenever someone says something like this it really infuriates me. Yes, freedom of speech and opinion and all, but my first thought is "How dare you criticize someone else for wasting time on something you don't feel is important. Unless you've never, once in your life, done a sub-optimal or unnecessary task. Go to a movie lately? Why didn't you send that money to a food bank? Why didn't you use that time to do some small piece of work to save the world?"
- Chris2048 10y agodesireco42 put a lot of hard work and effort into that criticism, who are you to say it's no good?
- gkfasdfasdf 10y agoBad news for the bikini barristas? http://people.com/celebrity/topless-coffee-shops-the-bikini-baristas-of-washington/ http://people.com/celebrity/topless-coffee-shops-the-bikini-...
- yellowapple 10y agoDepends on the bikini, probably. If the posterior portion thereof has sufficient coverage, there shouldn't be any major issue.
- M_Grey 10y agoOr better yet, adapt those "As Seen On TV" 'fart absorbing undies' to the task. As bonus the baristas can go back to their kale and cruciform diet, without worrying that their mighty trumpets would disturb the customers.
- Neliquat 10y agoNSF Certified thongs really do need to be a thing I suppose.
- midgetjones 10y agoI would have put money on this happening in Australia. See also: 'where have all the bloody teaspoons gone?' http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498 http://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498
- mathoff 10y agoFrench data indicate global phenomenon! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326950/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326950/
- jonwachob91 10y agoWow. I'm curious if any of these Australian researchers have done a study correlating the number of birthday's someone has with their health. I can see the abstract now - "Study shows that birthday's are good for your health. The more birthdays you have the longer you live"
- M_Grey 10y agoI think it's fair to say that if you're in a position to be directly farted on by a nude person, more intimate contact has or will occur.
- make3 10y agoAh.. If only..
- M_Grey 10y agoThere's so much contained in just a few words and some punctuation. Don't worry, you'll find someone to um... fart on you.
- hutzlibu 10y agoNot necessarily. There are people who just like to be naked. (unless you meant farted in someones face)
- carapace 10y agoJust this morning I saw a person with no pants entering the Subway sandwich store on Market St. (This is in San Francisco... Civic Center.) Bare cheeks to the wind.
- M_Grey 10y agoI... stand corrected. I guess if he was wearing, shirt and shoes...
- daveguy 10y agoThis brings all new meaning to the phrase "silent but deadly".
- fritzw 10y ago"He asked a colleague to break wind directly onto two Petri dishes" ... "first fully clothed, then with his trousers down." "Our final conclusion? Don't fart naked near food." It may not seem significant but someday everyone will consider these findings obvious. That's because of this brave study.
- charlieflowers 10y agoI am already hard at work verifying whether the results can be replicated.
- robotnoises 10y agoI hope someone reaches-out to the Ludacris team about this but I fear it may be too late.
- gmarx 10y agoWhen I was a medical student I was assisting on an operation when I let loose with a horrible sulfurous fart. I was sly about it and made no noise. At some point the surgeon made a comment about how "it didn't smell too good in there" so I had to come clean; didn't want him further exploring and maybe cutting the abdomen to track down the smell. I tell this because that story is rarely relevant in my life and also to tell you that farts actually are relevant in a surgical context. The study is not as silly as it sounds
- jonwachob91 10y agoEvery time I hear stories like this I think back to the episode of Scrubs were Turk farts in during an abdominal surgery and he lets the attending think he nicked the colon.
- olyjohn 10y agoCake farts are even more dangerous than I had realized.
- charlieflowers 10y agoIn all seriousness ... the experiment failed to control for potential differences between the farts.
- mcv 10y agoFar too small sample size. This research needs to be redone with a lot more farts.
- sauronlord 10y agoDelicious quote: "...splatter ring around that was caused by the sheer velocity of the fart, which blew skin bacteria from the cheeks and blasted it onto the dish... they're similar to the ‘friendly’ bacteria found in yoghurt." You're welcome, you pervert.
- Jonathanks 10y agoNow that's funny. Someone just ruined your yogurt-filled snack? ;-)
- jgalt212 10y agoWell this definitely leads credence to the rumor you can give someone pinkeye if you fart on their pillow.
- winteriscoming 10y agoApparently, only if you do that while being naked.
- anonu 10y agoSeems like the study may be self-contradicting. If the bacteria studied is the "good" kind, like the one in yogurt, don't you want this in all your food?