Two Canadian researchers studied a bunch of spam and found that a lot of it is health related and that if you place an order, quite often a box of something purporting to be what you ordered gets delivered.
Folks, we’re all in the wrong business.
Peter Gernburd and Alejandro Jadad at the Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University of Toronto and University Health Network, Canada, reportedly studied 4,153 e-mail messages sent to three accounts over a month. A third of the messages were health-related.
The two researchers were reportedly able to buy products purported to be the sedatives Valium and Xanax, the pain killer Tramadol, the erectile dysfunction drug Cialis, the weight-loss drug Meridia, and some natural weight loss and sexual enhancement drugs.
“These could be fake. These could be real. These could be adulterated. We don’t know,” Jadad reportedly said of the drugs he and his co-auther were able to buy.
By my reckoning, the question is not whether the drugs are real or not. It’s how can the rest of us get researching jobs at the University of Toronto?
Hell, I’ve got two Ph.D-thesis ideas right off the top of my head: “Clicking on Porn Results in Nekkidness,” and “Those Nigerian Guys Really Don’t Have 54 MILLION US DOLLARS.”
