Coca Cola

So, how many of you out there like Coca Cola? How many of you use it as a contraceptive? Yeah, that's what I thought. This was taken from msnbc.com

BOSTON - Deborah Anderson had heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years.

So she and her colleagues decided to put the soft drink to the test. In the lab, that is.
For discovering that, yes indeed, Coke was a spermicide, Anderson and her team are among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel Prize, the annual award given by the Annals of Improbable Research magazine for oddball but often surprisingly practical scientific achievements.

The ceremony at Harvard University, in which actual Nobel laureates bestow the awards, also honored a British psychologist who found that foods that sound better taste better; a group of researchers who discovered exotic dancers make more money when they are at peak fertility; and a pair of Brazilian archaeologists who determined armadillos can change the course of history.

Anderson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University's School of Medicine, and her colleagues found that not only was Coca-Cola a spermicide, but that Diet Coke for some reason worked best. Their study appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985.
"We're thrilled to win an Ig Nobel, because the study was somewhat of a parody in the first place," said Anderson, who added that she does not recommend using Coke for birth control purposes.

A group of Taiwanese doctors were honored for a similar study that found Coca-Cola and other soft drinks were not effective contraceptives. Anderson said the studies used different methodology.

A Coca-Cola spokeswoman refused comment on the Ig Nobel awards.

So here is my question...do you drink the coke or put it in other places? Who seriously thought of this? Did they test this on humans? Are there people that desperate for money they would participate in this study?

As for the other awards....

Foods that sound better taste better. Ok, makes sense to me. I don't want to eat a dish someone has named "crap."

Exotic dancers make more money when they are fertile. It's called pheromones people. Women emit more of them when they are fertile and thanks to nature, it makes men well....you get my point. Happy guys will "tip" (is that the proper term) the dancer more.

I'm just gonna leave the armadillo thing alone. I don't really know where to go with that.

It amazes me that money is going towards this research. Why not spend the time AND money to find a cure for cancer, or bettering the world.

I also wonder how many experimenting teenagers who are too afraid to buy condoms will try the Coke approach when engaging in activities. Are we going to see a population boom due to a Coke failure?

If you go to www.msnbc.com you can read the rest of the article and it offers further explanations of the awards findings.