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kawuli:
kawuli:
kawuli:
1.
Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones
after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World
2.
Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his
own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times
3. “The
stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the
back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only
16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and
Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary
study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a
moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small
kidney stones.’”
4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous
for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only
ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly
inaccurate.”
5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone
that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters
could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size
and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to
try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock
waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The
coaster could help with that, too.”
SCIENCE: IT WORKS
Update:
“In
all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to
see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller
coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that
worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are
too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the
kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and
quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted
movements,” he said.
MSU Today
I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:
1. Hypothesis
2. Experiment
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)
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