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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Kamikaze on December 16, 2004, 10:58:27 pm

Title: "Science" gone Bad
Post by: Kamikaze on December 16, 2004, 10:58:27 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,1374213,00.html

The bad science awards of 2004!

Some of my favorites:

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Durex Performa were in a slightly different category of bad, meaning "evil": a new condom with a special cream in the teat "to help control climax and prolong sexual excitement for longer lasting lovemaking". The magic ingredient was benzocaine, a local anaesthetic, which made the judges' tongues go numb. We didn't even think about trying it on our genitals.

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But the winner was a hair-straightening treatment by Bioionic, called Ionic Hair Retexturizing: "Water molecules are broken down to a fraction of their previous size ... diminutive enough to penetrate through the cuticle, and eventually into the core of each hair". Shrinking molecules caused some concern among the physicists at the ceremony, since IHR was available just 200 yards away, and the only other groups who have managed to create superdense quark-gluon plasma used a relativistic heavy ion collider. The prospect of such equipment being used by hairdressers was deemed worthy of further investigation.

Title: "Science" gone Bad
Post by: Night Hammer on December 17, 2004, 01:49:05 am

condoms suck......

Title: "Science" gone Bad
Post by: Black Wolf on December 17, 2004, 01:55:42 am

Actually, babies suck, when you think about it.

Title: "Science" gone Bad
Post by: Night Hammer on December 17, 2004, 01:58:23 am

this is very true, didnt say i didnt use them, just not a fan