MOS: The Smell of Parkinson’s
At first Les bathed more thoroughly as requested, but it didn’t help. He couldn’t smell it, and nobody else seemed to detect a whiff either.
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MOS: Metformin and Long Covid
Why go through the trouble of conducting a whole other study when you can just ask the people who got those delicious free drugs if they’ll track any covidian symptoms for a year? Worst that happens is you find out a bit more nothing.
MOS: Lake Titicaca Scrotum Frog
Some genius was like “know what Lake Titicaca needs? Trout.” It did not. The trout dined on scrotum frog tadpoles.
MOS: Parasitic Twin on the Brain
The incidence of fetus-in-fetu is suspected to be less than one in a half a million live births, with less than 200 cases reported in medical literature.
MOS: Phosgene Clouds in Ohio
In order to avoid what could have been an even bigger disaster, in a controlled release they lit all that vinyl chloride on fire.
MOS: The History of CPR
With this largely sorted out by the time of the Tang Dynasty, you’d be forgiven for thinking that CPR had been spread worldwide before someone had a chance to suggest “maybe throw them over a barrel.” Well.
MOS: MERS
Over 2,300 people were tested for MERS during the months of the World Cup, and there wasn’t a single positive test.
MOS: A Fusion Breakthrough
Energy from fission is the science of hot-rock-boils-water-makes-turbine-go-brrrrr. It’s so simple a cave can do it- not a weird autocorrect.
MOS: Quantum Tardigrades
Ever see a science headline that you’re damn sure was constructed by sci-fi writers on a deadline? Someone just threw ‘quantum’ at this one and called it a day.
MOS: The Alzheimer’s Data Manipulation Scandal
Over seventy images from twenty of Lesné’s papers are under some degree of suspicion, ten of which involve A𝛃*56.