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Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
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Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#12Bad news for the bikini barristas? http://people.com/celebrity/topless-coffee-shops-the-bikini-...
Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#13I 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
Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#14I 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.
Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#15This brings all new meaning to the phrase "silent but deadly".
Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#16Don't we have diseases to cure, cancers to heal?
What 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?
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#17Did this win an Ig Nobel and if not, why not?
It's not on 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.
Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#18Amusing that this is sitting just under the "Bare bottom simplest example of machine learning in TensorFlow" story at the moment.
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Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#19"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.
Re: Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
#20I 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
French data indicate global phenomenon! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326950/