NCBI ROFL: Top 5 insensitive titles! | Discoblog

Think scientists are always tactful? Think again! Here are our five favorite insensitive paper titles of all time:

1.) Ashes to ashes: thermal contact burns in children caused by recreational fires.

2.) An unusual penpal: case report and literature review of posterior urethral injuries secondary to foreign body insertion.

3.) A lucky catch: Fishhook injury of the tongue.

4.) Children and mini-magnets: an almost fatal attraction.

5.) “Here’s egg in your eye”: a prospective study of blunt ocular trauma resulting from thrown eggs.

Photo: flickr/Joe Shlabotnik

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