Wednesday, January 09, 2013

A title and figures say it all: An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit (note - a bit gross)

I had heard about this paper a few weeks ago and was just reminded about it by a friend. To understand this paper all you really need are the title and Figure 1 and 2 which are below. Enjoy.

An In-Depth Analysis of a Piece of Shit: Distribution of Schistosoma mansoni and Hookworm Eggs in Human Stool.




Figure 1. Instruction form on how to collect whole-stool samples for the study

Figure 2. Processing of stool samples according to consistency including whole-stool homogenization.  Sausage-shaped-but-soft samples were processed like in (A) without taking samples from the center.

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