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The Annual Ig Nobel Prizes are run as a funny alternative to the annual Nobel prizes for medicine, chemistry, physics, economics, literature and peace. The Ig Nobels honour real research and are based on published research papers. Usually the awarded reciprients go along with the light hearted awards.
One of the honoured award receivers, Deborah Anderson of Boston University Medical Centre and colleagues were awarded the chemistry prize for a 1985 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found Coca-Cola kills sperm. She said she was serious in testing the soft drink because women were using it in a douche as a contraceptive and, later, to try to protect themselves from the AIDS virus. "It definitely wouldn't work as a contraceptive because sperm swims so fast," she said. Another notable award reciprient was the team at Duke University in North Carolina who showed that high-priced placebos (expensive fakes) work better than cheap fake medicine. |
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