Ig Nobels
This year’s Ig Nobel Prizes have been handed out, to the usual fun and weird selection of research. Read about it on MSNBC.
I especially like the idea of a “Spanish scientists who found that rats sometimes could not distinguish between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards.” That’s almost up there with having locusts watch Star Wars.
For more fun reading, check out Wikipedia’s list of Ig Nobel Prize winners.
I know that the Ig Nobels are lighthearted fun, and not to be taken too seriously, but I am always reminded of the typical anti-intellectual news coverage that obscure scientific research receives. It is soooo easy to take cheap shots at science in the popular press, without knowing doodlysquat about the subject in question.
Comment by Rolland Everitt — Monday, October 15, 2007 @ 19:49