I launched a thread to talk about bizarre scientific papers. Alas it was written in French but wait no more, here is its English cousin! #improbablescience
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1">A comprehensive review of "conflicts" between bears of men in Bhutan: over 5 years, injury is guaranteed but hopefully, no death is reported #ManVsWild https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237812">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="2⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 2" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 2"> You& #39;ve spilled your coffee mug AGAIN?!? Thanks to this thorough study, you& #39;ll know all there is to know about how the coffee moves inside the cup https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2078152015300377">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="3⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 3" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 3">The observation of 200 animals for 4 years led australianhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇦🇺" title="Flagge von Australien" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Australien"> scientists to the conclusion that the more girlfriends female kangorooshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦘" title="Kangaroo" aria-label="Emoji: Kangaroo">have, the less kids they gave birth tohttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤷‍♂️" title="Achselzuckender Mann" aria-label="Emoji: Achselzuckender Mann"> #BFFs https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:d93c8e2 ">https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:d...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="4⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 4" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 4">According to this UShttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇺🇸" title="Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Vereinigten Staaten"> study on 1,500 people, atheists sleep better than catholics or protestants. So skip the bedtime prayer and start counting sheep!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😴" title="Schlafendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Schlafendes Gesicht"> https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article-abstract/43/Supplement_1/A76/5847064?redirectedFrom=fulltext">https://academic.oup.com/sleep/art...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="5⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 5" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 5">When you ride the subwayhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚇" title="U-Bahn" aria-label="Emoji: U-Bahn">, know you& #39;re surrounded with microbes, according to this painstaking study of the Mexico subway system: 5 minutes after being cleaned up, the train pole gets back its former bacterial florahttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🦠" title="Microbe" aria-label="Emoji: Microbe"> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237272">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="6⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 6" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 6">Hay or grass? Britishhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇬🇧" title="Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge des Vereinigten Königreiches"> pony-loving vets have studied the impact of such a shift in diet on the gut microbiota of these small equids, by looking closely at the faeceshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💩" title="Dreckshaufen" aria-label="Emoji: Dreckshaufen"> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0237869">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="7⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 7" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 7">Czechhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇿" title="Flagge der Tschechischen Republik" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge der Tschechischen Republik"> psychologists & zoologists studied human reactions facing snakehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐍" title="Schlange" aria-label="Emoji: Schlange"> pictures. They& #39;ve found that the more venomous snakes are the ones we fear the most. Well done Mother Nature! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236999">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="8⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 8" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 8">Canadianhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada"> biologists have identified in chocolate a molecule from the flavonoid family which boosts the memory of... snaleshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐌" title="Schnecke" aria-label="Emoji: Schnecke"> https://jeb.biologists.org/content/215/20/3566">https://jeb.biologists.org/content/2...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="9⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 9" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 9">What is the state of the art about parachutehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🪂" title="Fallschirm" aria-label="Emoji: Fallschirm"> efficacy int the fight against gravity? Astonishingly, no randomised controlled clinical trial shows a mortality reductionhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤣" title="Lachend auf dem Boden rollen" aria-label="Emoji: Lachend auf dem Boden rollen"> PS: do not miss the article footnotes https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459">https://www.bmj.com/content/3...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="0⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 0" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 0">... and the long-awaited trial finally arrived in 2018 (in the Christmas issue of @bmj_latest): no mortality reduction with a parachutehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🪂" title="Fallschirm" aria-label="Emoji: Fallschirm"> (but pay attention to the details of the trial, especially the protocol differences between the two groups) https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094">https://www.bmj.com/content/3...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1">Menhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♂️" title="Männliches Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Männliches Zeichen"> are more biased towards money and success than womenhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="♀️" title="Weibliches Zeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Weibliches Zeichen">, whatever are their own socio-conomic status. In other words, men are created venalhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💲" title="Fettes Dollarzeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes Dollarzeichen"> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343865164_A_registered_report_on_how_implicit_pro-rich_bias_is_shaped_by_the_perceiver%27s_gender_and_socioeconomic_status">https://www.researchgate.net/publicati...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="2⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 2" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 2">Do you burn more calories by climbing stairs 2 steps at a time or by going at a normal pace? London scientists have recruted 14 volunteers to solve that mystery https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051213">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="1⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 1" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 1">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="3⃣" title="Tastenkappe Ziffer 3" aria-label="Emoji: Tastenkappe Ziffer 3">After lightninghttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚡️" title="Hochspannungszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Hochspannungszeichen"> killed more than 300 reindeers in Norwayhttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇳🇴" title="Flagge von Norwegen" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Norwegen">, zoologists have observed that rodentshttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🐀" title="Ratte" aria-label="Emoji: Ratte"> have deserted the area for 2 years: fear of decaying carcasses or scare of ravens that feast on them? https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.191644">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.10...
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