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Pointed criticism: A sword makes a difference

There are many ways to deliver criticism effectively, but emitting a loud startling noise at a person who is in the middle of a life-threatening procedure is not one of them.

So writes Miss Conduct about a predicament faced recently by 2007 Ig Nobel Medicine Prize co-winner Dan Meyer.

NOTE: Dan Meyer is coming to participate—to take a bow, and perhaps then some—at the 2008 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, which happens tomorrow night: October 2, 2008.

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