Bacon-related medical breakthrough wins Ig Nobel prize Is there nothing that can’t be solved with the judicious application of bacon? Apparently not, as this year’s Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine winners can attest. The boffins from the US and India took home the gong for their paper on treating “uncontrollable" nosebleeds by packing the nose with strips of cured pork. The Ig Nobels …
Sorry, that's no defence. Saying that you only buried them in a shallow grave, and what's all the fuss about you didn't actually eat them, is not going to cut any ice with the jury at your trial.
On the other hand, if you'd eaten the evidence like a good boy, you wouldn't have this problem. Didn't your old Mum bring you up proper? You can't have a new victim, until you've finished eating the old one!
Ditto. The peak at night is likely due to factors such as concealment or targets being asleep rather than people who are awake late are murderers and perverts. Now if you had said elected officials or employees of a large public service broadcaster then maybe you would have been onto something. ..
My possible linking together bread yeast and a rare autoimmune disorder is completely ignored, despite no one being able to give an alternative explanation for my improving health.
Apparently, unless someone whose name is prefixed with "Dr" comes out with something, it isnt real.
I'm sorry to hear that. Is this something you have been able to either demonstrate on a larger sample size or fully explain the mechanism for?
Journal etc do tend to limit work from outside academia because it's more likely for an academic to follow the required protocol and present a robust proof. I'm not attempting to belittle your work, quite the opposite. Firstly I'm glad you are recovering. Secondly, to take it further you need to try and repeat your results (which to be fair can be tough) on a wider sample size, do so in a controlled manner (so it's ethical, safe for the subjects and you are better able to prove that the factor you are controlling is the driving the change) and hopefully also demonstrate how it actually works.
It may be worthwhile approaching people working in the field to work with you and share credit.
I may be collateral evidence but as my GP points out, the medical profession, for from being research-oriented, is actually very slow to take on change. (There are sound reasons for this, such as Wakefield and thalidomide, but it took an awfully long time for the work on helicobacter pylorii to sink in.)
Is cooked or uncooked bacon required? If uncooked, I'll just cook and make a sarnie. If cooked, I'll still make the sarnie but then enjoy the smell of bacon all day. Hmmm. Nevermind... I'll just forget the punch in the nose, make the sarnie and rub some bacon grease on my moustache.
Yep - "follow the money" is a good mental habit to get into when you are deciding on the validity of something.
For example I note that the iPhone features rather heavily in New Scientist this week and on numerous news sites across t-interwebs, even when the new v6 is not being reviewed.
Cheers
Jon
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