News From the World of Crap Science

    In a dramatic breakthrough of almost no significance, two of the world’s leading crap scientists ─ one-time fashion model David Hemenway of Harvard University and Israeli smell researcher, Noam Sobel ─ have joined forces in a lavishly-funded, interdisciplinary series of useless studies.
    In his most recent assault on common sense, Prof. Hemenway, (DOG 12/8/2011) proved that crime among Boston’s Black and Hispanic youths was caused by sugary soft drinks. The professor is now working an hour or two a day to determine the comparative CTI (Crime Toxicality Index) of a 12-ounce can of Coca Cola vs. a tall glass of iced tea with four lumps of sugar.
    Smultaneous with Dr. Hemenway’s groundbreaking gibberish, his compeer in nonsensical research, Prof. Sobel (DOG 2/8/2011), world-unrenowned neurobiologist with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, discovered that an epidemic of erectile dysfunction among Jewish males (and the consequent low reproductive rate of non-Hasidic Jews) was not, as many had speculated, due to the bitchiness of Jewish females, but rather to the aroma of the tears secreted by said bitchy Jewish females. Prof. Sobel’s team is currently engaged in correlating the TOM (Turn-Off Magnitude) of Hebraic female tears with the position of the female subjects in their menstrual cycles.

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    The new, massively ludicrous effort to be headed by the two savants along with their dedicated and unpaid staffs of young, attractive, coed graduate students is aimed at solving almost all of the world’s deepest and most trivial mysteries.
    Negotiations among Prof. Sobel’s mother, Bella Abzug, Prof. Hemenway’s agent, Scott Boras, and President Obama’s science czar, Al Sharpton, are nearing completion on the 10-year, $795 million exercise in pseudo-science.
    In preparation, Dr. Hemenway has purchased a seven million dollar Key Biscayne research facility with five bedrooms, eight bathrooms, and a seagoing yacht for himself, his family, and Damian, his belovéd Weimaraner attack dog.
    No less farsighted, Dr. Sobel has transferred his stocks, bonds, jewelry, and cash to a Swiss bank in the event that Iran goes nuclear.
    Here’s a roster of some of the more significant problems with which the two men will be grappling:

Given: The death rate due to motorcycle crashes is much higher among men and women who wear black-leather jackets with death’s-head emblems
To Prove: Motorcycle crashes are caused by black-leather jackets with death’s-head emblems

Given: Accidental shootings in New Hampshire and Vermont peak during hunting season among people wearing blaze orange jock straps.
To Prove: Blaze orange jock straps cause gunshot wounds.

Given: There are no Indonesian dwarfs in Baseball’s Hall of Fame.
To Prove: The Baseball Writer’s Association discriminates against Indonesians.

Given: Marketing experts claim that rock music and the sound of a synthesized drum beat at the frequency of a human heart result in dramatic increases in sales of Yodels and Zumba Dancing in supermarkets and on television infomercials.
To Prove: Rock music and the sound of a synthesized drum beat at the frequency of a human heart result in dramatic increases in Yodel sales and encourage fat ladies to take up Zumba Dancing because marketing experts say so.

Given: People say they dislike the smell of rotten eggs but nevertheless surreptitiously fart in crowded elevators, hardware stores, libraries, and commuter trains.
To Prove: People like the smell of rotten eggs.

Given: Cats do not have opposable thumbs yet there are more cats in America than people.
To Prove: Opposable thumbs are stupid

Given: Two and a Half Men continues to be popular even though Ashton Kutcher has replaced Charlie Sheen.
To Prove: Two and a Half Men would close in a month without Jon Cryer

Given: Most Hunk-type actors sport several days worth of strubble on their faces.
To Prove: Females prefer to mate with males who have stubble on their faces, however, too much stubble is a turnoff unless the male is rich and massively hung.

Given: The New York Times distorts its news coverage because most of its readers are Liberals.
To Prove: Most of The New York Times readers are Liberals because the newspaper distorts its news coverage.

Given: Most stabbing incidents by inner city youths involve the use of knives.
To Prove: Knives force inner city youths to stab people.

Given: Most shooting incidents by inner city youths involve the use of guns.
To Prove: Eating McDonald’s fries forces inner city youths to shoot people.

    Although there was some initial disagreement between the two distinguished phonies as to the make-up of the sample populations to be interviewed, they reached a good-natured compromise over martinis and kreplach during a Harvard Club tête-à-tête in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
    Dr. Hemenway will present his in-depth questionnaires to the few surviving members of the 1,878 Boston inner city youths whose carbonated soda intake he recently probed.
    Dr. Sobel has agreed to conduct his research at various locales in the Caribbean and South Pacific where large numbers of young, nubile, scantily-clad Israeli chicks are known to vacation.

Norm Mack, Peterborough, dog@myfairpoint.net

 

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  • 1/20/2012 9:40 AM Nun wrote:
    ...and Swedish women should be required to eat plantains. Please tell me that you made up the part about Key Biscayne.
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    1. 1/20/2012 10:50 AM dome of glass wrote:
      You gotta be kidding...the whole piece is pure bullshit (except for the fact that Sobel and, even more, the agenda-driven Hemenway are prime examples of pseudo-scientists ripping off academic and governmental establishments via research grants for ludicrous projects).
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