The worst jobs in science

by **Chacal** » 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

by **hightimber** » 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*

by **JAG** » 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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by **hightimber** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:29 pm

Originally posted by JAG
...I mean that is just nuts .

No pun, intended! :rotflmao:

by **JAG** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:33 pm

Originally posted by hightimber
No pun, intended!

I was wondering who would catch that first

by **hightimber** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 1:39 pm

Originally posted by JAG
I was wondering who would catch that first

I'll not be 'catching' bull semen. :eek:

by **JAG** » 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

by **hightimber** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:06 pm

Originally posted by JAG
This is a great thread, maybe it should be a sticky

You're a sick, sick man. Welcome to the club. :cool:

by **Hellacious** » Fri Feb 27, 2004 2:21 pm

I know that I wouldnt do this one if i was payed a million dollars.. :confused:

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." :eek:

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