dab69
September 13th, 2013, 07:30
Other prizes went elsewhere, but the award for public health went to Thailand:
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/ig-nobel ... 8C11140134 (http://www.nbcnews.com/science/ig-nobel-prizes-blend-serious-silly-sides-science-8C11140134)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 1083904208 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0002961083904208)
Public Health Prize goes to Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal and Henry Wilde, for the medical techniques described in their report "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam" тАФ techniques which they recommend, except in cases in which the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/ig-nobel ... 8C11140134 (http://www.nbcnews.com/science/ig-nobel-prizes-blend-serious-silly-sides-science-8C11140134)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 1083904208 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0002961083904208)
Public Health Prize goes to Kasian Bhanganada, Tu Chayavatana, Chumporn Pongnumkul, Anunt Tonmukayakul, Piyasakol Sakolsatayadorn, Krit Komaratal and Henry Wilde, for the medical techniques described in their report "Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam" тАФ techniques which they recommend, except in cases in which the amputated penis had been partially eaten by a duck.