Look at this: We’re so good, we even win the joke prizes.
A joint U.S. and Israeli team’s study on a cure for hiccups won the IgNobel prize – a humorous counterpart to the Nobel prizes awarded this week. The joint team issued a study purporting that a finger up the rectum could halt the annoying phenomenon.
I’ll pass on that cure, however. Someone send it over to Andrew Sullivan to test it.
Oops, did I type that out loud?