The Chilean government showed good medical sense in refusing to provide an insufficient number of blow-up dolls to 33 miners trapped underground, if a February 16, 2011 report in The Mirror is accurate. The newspaper says: [A new book called 33 Men, by Jonathan Franklin, a New York Times journalist] reveals that a request for […]
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Inflatable doll warnings, past & present
With inflatable dolls so much in the news this week, it’s a good time to remind ourselves about the medical report for which Ellen Kleist of Nuuk, Greenland and Harald Moi of Oslo, Norway were awarded the 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in public health: “Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll“, Genitourinary Medicine, vol. 69, […]
Protection against inflatable dolls
Worried about transmission of gonorrhoea from an inflatable doll? You could learn something from the 1996 Ig Nobel public health prize-winning study “Transmission of Gonorrhea Through an Inflatable Doll.” Or you could take the very different approach shown in this brief excerpt from the 1987 movie “Hard Ticket to Hawaii” (thanks to commenter Stiricide for […]