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Is sticking your finger down your throat a pleasant experience? (Sorry, bulimics excluded) How about sticking it down there and leaving it for three weeks? This is not a gag (sorry).

"I cut it twice and it's still too short" is an old carpenter's joke about persistence coupled with incompetence. It's a pretty good joke.

OK, I may have taken some license with the title but not with the science.

Just about any drug can be made to look bad, especially when its risks are considered in the absence of its benefits.