18 Worst Jobs In Science

[syzygy]

for all those stumped about what do to with their lives here's a few promising
avenues to explore, thanks to the folks at popular science magazine.

flatus odor judge, dysentery stool sample analyzer, barnyard masturbator . . . etc, etc .

even if you do decide on any of the above, you will certainly fall short of the worst
science job of all time held by this fellow:

Pre-med student Stubbins Ffirth (1784-1820) ate, drank, and breathed the blood, urine, and vomit of yellow-fever victims (he also dropped the fluids into his eyes and worked them into cuts on his skin). He didn't get sick - the patients were in a late, uncontagious stage - so he erroneously decided the disease's cause lurked elsewhere.

 

[amnesiac]

cool article

 

[syzygy]

some of the other descriptions on page 2 are also pretty nasty.

 

[Toasthead]

7. FISTULA FEEDER

One method used by veterinarians to study how bovine innards work is to install a hole, called a fistula, into a cow's rumen, the 30-gallon forestomach, where microbes ferment grass. Such rumen fistulae are used for a wide range of bovine digestive research, from testing new feed additives to discovering the roles various enzymes perform in digestion. "There's a plug on the left side of the cow, about six inches around," says Dan Sehnert, animal facility manager at UC Davis. "It's easy. You just take out the plug and reach your hand in." Holey cow!




--I have seen the job openings at Davis for this job. YIKES!!

 

[CT2TXtech]

THis was posted yesterday. Number 3 is just gross