The worst jobs in science
Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:36 pm
From fart sniffer to postdoc, the most torturous ways to make a living in science.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,484153-1,00.html
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/article/0,12543,484153-1,00.html
Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:14 pm
Sixteen healthy subjects volunteered to eat pinto beans and insert small plastic collection tubes into their anuses (worst-job runners-up, to be sure). After each "episode of flatulence," Levitt syringed the gas into a discrete container, rigorously maintaining fart integrity. The odor judges then sat down with at least 100 samples, opened the caps one at a time, and inhaled robustly. As their faces writhed in agony, they rated just how noxious the smell was.
*gag*
*gag*
Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:28 pm
I'm sorry but you couldn't pay me enough to jump in between a horny bull and a cow and try to "coerce" the bull to use an artificial vagina while I held it. I mean that is just nuts 
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Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:29 pm
No pun, intended!Originally posted by JAG
...I mean that is just nuts .
Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:33 pm
Originally posted by hightimber
No pun, intended!
I was wondering who would catch that first
Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:39 pm
I'll not be 'catching' bull semen.Originally posted by JAG
I was wondering who would catch that first
Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:02 pm
Originally posted by hightimber
I'll not be 'catching' bull semen.
This is a great thread, maybe it should be a sticky
Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:06 pm
You're a sick, sick man. Welcome to the club.Originally posted by JAG
This is a great thread, maybe it should be a sticky
Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:21 pm
I know that I wouldnt do this one if i was payed a million dollars..
8. PRISON RAPE RESEARCHER
University of South Dakota psychologist Cindy Struckman- Johnson was one of the first to seek anonymous written narrative testimonies from prisoners about the realities of prison life, and she employed a handful of students to help process the returned surveys. What she got stunned them all: One in ten inmates in the survey had been the victim of a sexual assault, many repeatedly. But it wasn't the numbers alone that made the impact, it was the vividness of the accounts and the desperation expressed. To read page after first- person page of sexual torture—"This happens every day. Please, please, can you do something about it"—well, says Struckman- Johnson, "some of my students almost couldn't handle it."
8. PRISON RAPE RESEARCHER
University of South Dakota psychologist Cindy Struckman- Johnson was one of the first to seek anonymous written narrative testimonies from prisoners about the realities of prison life, and she employed a handful of students to help process the returned surveys. What she got stunned them all: One in ten inmates in the survey had been the victim of a sexual assault, many repeatedly. But it wasn't the numbers alone that made the impact, it was the vividness of the accounts and the desperation expressed. To read page after first- person page of sexual torture—"This happens every day. Please, please, can you do something about it"—well, says Struckman- Johnson, "some of my students almost couldn't handle it."