Okay, not really. But don't let that stop you from believing and recirculating this. This week's Anti-Scientist covers the strange life of an internet hoax so hilarious that it simply will not stop breaching the canons of (reportedly) scientific fact.
On April 4, 2000, Calmann-Lévy Publishers released a book on the Mir Space Station by Pierre Kohler, author of popular French-language astronomy books. He states there that through a video-taped experiment conducted in orbit, NASA determined which sexual positions were possible without "mechanical assistance" in zero gravity.
Every week, the Anti-Scientist picks a study or news report that was stillborn from the start. Then he resurrects it and makes it do a jolly dance!
How gay are American football players?
Eric Anderson of the University of Bath, Center for the Tedious Verification of the Self-Evident, has determined that college-level male cheerleaders who played football in high school, are likely to have engaged in “acts intended to sexually arouse other men.”
This is news how? Still, we have it, the neon factoid, nineteen of forty-seven footballers sampled “had sexual relations with men.”
