Life's Tough...2
But at least you aren't doing this for a living. If you are doing this for a living, I'm sorry. I hope the money is good.
Inspired by Dirty Jobs on the Discover Channel and Popular Science's yearly The Worst Jobs in Science.
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Do you think that studies should be done into...well...flatulence? Not for a means to stop it, but as a means of diagnosis of other medical conditions.
Well, Dr. Michael Levitt in Minneapolis thought so. And who knows, maybe he's right. But being either of his lab subjects would have sucked. Popular Science awarded he and his lab subjects the title of #1 Worst Job in Science for 2003.
First, the producers...
They volunteered to eat healthy quantities of pinto beans and, then, insert collection tubes to obtain their flatulent excretions. Yes, insert...yes, there.
The doctor would, then, collect said samples and send them along to the second group of subjects...
These odorists sat down with about a hundred samples each and...opened them and smelled them. Their job...to rate how noxious each sample was.
The samples were also chemically analyzed. The chief component found was hydrogen sulfide.
While the doctor's studies are held at arm's length by the medical establishment consider this, hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas and is believed to play a role in numerous diseases.
Consider the rich cargo of toxic stew you are carrying the next time you politely hold back on letting fly for fear of embarrassing yourself or someone else. The colon that you save may be your own.
Still the two jobs profiled here, both the anal vapor collector and the post-anal scent tester, are way up high on my list of things that I don't want to do.
Imagine going to the doctor and having them ask you for a fart sample in addition to the urine and stool that you are already, sometimes, asked to provide.
I understand the collection...wouldn't want to take part, but I can understand it. I can understand the chemical analysis to determine the content and potentiality of a sample's being hazardous to the health of the producer or being a symptom of something going wrong in the body of the producer. I get all of that.
I don't see what the purpose of the people opening and sniffing the fart vials was...unless Dr. Levitt had a sadistic mean streak.
No word on whether the research is still ongoing at this date.
Sometimes, you're a smart feller and sometimes, you're a fart smeller.
Inspired by Dirty Jobs on the Discover Channel and Popular Science's yearly The Worst Jobs in Science.
***
Do you think that studies should be done into...well...flatulence? Not for a means to stop it, but as a means of diagnosis of other medical conditions.
Well, Dr. Michael Levitt in Minneapolis thought so. And who knows, maybe he's right. But being either of his lab subjects would have sucked. Popular Science awarded he and his lab subjects the title of #1 Worst Job in Science for 2003.
First, the producers...
They volunteered to eat healthy quantities of pinto beans and, then, insert collection tubes to obtain their flatulent excretions. Yes, insert...yes, there.
The doctor would, then, collect said samples and send them along to the second group of subjects...
These odorists sat down with about a hundred samples each and...opened them and smelled them. Their job...to rate how noxious each sample was.
The samples were also chemically analyzed. The chief component found was hydrogen sulfide.
While the doctor's studies are held at arm's length by the medical establishment consider this, hydrogen sulfide is a toxic gas and is believed to play a role in numerous diseases.
Consider the rich cargo of toxic stew you are carrying the next time you politely hold back on letting fly for fear of embarrassing yourself or someone else. The colon that you save may be your own.
Still the two jobs profiled here, both the anal vapor collector and the post-anal scent tester, are way up high on my list of things that I don't want to do.
Imagine going to the doctor and having them ask you for a fart sample in addition to the urine and stool that you are already, sometimes, asked to provide.
I understand the collection...wouldn't want to take part, but I can understand it. I can understand the chemical analysis to determine the content and potentiality of a sample's being hazardous to the health of the producer or being a symptom of something going wrong in the body of the producer. I get all of that.
I don't see what the purpose of the people opening and sniffing the fart vials was...unless Dr. Levitt had a sadistic mean streak.
No word on whether the research is still ongoing at this date.
Sometimes, you're a smart feller and sometimes, you're a fart smeller.
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