Comments on: NCBI ROFL: And the grossest study award goes to… http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/02/25/ncbi-rofl-and-the-grossest-study-award-goes-to/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: showmethedata http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/02/25/ncbi-rofl-and-the-grossest-study-award-goes-to/#comment-24449 showmethedata Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:32:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=16314#comment-24449 figleaf- Can you provide a reference for the study you mention that shows that "statistically speaking condoms are only fractionally more effective than withdrawal for as a contraceptive method"? PS: I use condoms regularly, think they are important, yet still find this paper funny in a gross sort of way. I guess that makes me a "knee-squeezing twit", although I'm not exactly sure how it affects my ability to use a condom properly. figleaf-
Can you provide a reference for the study you mention that shows that “statistically speaking condoms are only fractionally more effective than withdrawal for as a contraceptive method”?

PS: I use condoms regularly, think they are important, yet still find this paper funny in a gross sort of way. I guess that makes me a “knee-squeezing twit”, although I’m not exactly sure how it affects my ability to use a condom properly.

]]> By: dr. frueisata http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/02/25/ncbi-rofl-and-the-grossest-study-award-goes-to/#comment-24448 dr. frueisata Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:12:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=16314#comment-24448 How wrong you are, Sir. Condoms ARE by far the most gross thing ever. They are 27.2% grosser than raw sewage when taken from reproductive-health centers. I would provide you with the citation but it would be easier to direct you to look in your pantaloons for an example of inflated and misrepresented statistics. Good Day! How wrong you are, Sir. Condoms ARE by far the most gross thing ever. They are 27.2% grosser than raw sewage when taken from reproductive-health centers. I would provide you with the citation but it would be easier to direct you to look in your pantaloons for an example of inflated and misrepresented statistics.

Good Day!

]]> By: figleaf http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/02/25/ncbi-rofl-and-the-grossest-study-award-goes-to/#comment-24447 figleaf Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:07:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/?p=16314#comment-24447 I don't want to go all judgmental here but this is actually pretty critical public-health information. I mean, yeah, it sounds a little squicky but if you think about it it's not even as gross as stuff the average public sanitation worker, sewage-treatment plant operator, or even (yikes!) some restaurant inspectors (yikes!!) have to put up with every day. But consider for a moment that on the one hand condoms are the primary contraception method for first-time and short-term relationships. Then reflect on recent findings that statistically speaking condoms are only fractionally more effective than withdrawal for as a contraceptive method. Now look at those reliability statistics and reflect that condoms are the only recommended means of protection from sexually transmitted disease. Consider finally that the same knee-squeezing twits who snark about condom-use research are often at greatest risk of using condoms incorrectly when, or perhaps I should say if, they ever find themselves in a situation where condoms are most frequently used. And ask yourself if this line of research, however "gross," it's really all that floor-rollingly funny. Knowing that there's a reported 7.9% rate of condoms breaking or slipping off, and that (by rough inference) in half the cases where failure or slippage occurs there's measurable body fluid intermixture is worth a little mockery. Anyway, despite my crabby response to your editorial stance I'm actually glad to have learned about this study through Discoblog. I hope it encourages further research. It's kind of an important subject. So thanks. figleaf I don’t want to go all judgmental here but this is actually pretty critical public-health information. I mean, yeah, it sounds a little squicky but if you think about it it’s not even as gross as stuff the average public sanitation worker, sewage-treatment plant operator, or even (yikes!) some restaurant inspectors (yikes!!) have to put up with every day.

But consider for a moment that on the one hand condoms are the primary contraception method for first-time and short-term relationships. Then reflect on recent findings that statistically speaking condoms are only fractionally more effective than withdrawal for as a contraceptive method. Now look at those reliability statistics and reflect that condoms are the only recommended means of protection from sexually transmitted disease.

Consider finally that the same knee-squeezing twits who snark about condom-use research are often at greatest risk of using condoms incorrectly when, or perhaps I should say if, they ever find themselves in a situation where condoms are most frequently used. And ask yourself if this line of research, however “gross,” it’s really all that floor-rollingly funny.

Knowing that there’s a reported 7.9% rate of condoms breaking or slipping off, and that (by rough inference) in half the cases where failure or slippage occurs there’s measurable body fluid intermixture is worth a little mockery.

Anyway, despite my crabby response to your editorial stance I’m actually glad to have learned about this study through Discoblog. I hope it encourages further research. It’s kind of an important subject. So thanks.

figleaf

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