HARVARD RECEIVED $3 MILLION GRANT TO STUDY 'ASPARAGUS PEE'

Researchers at Harvard received over $3 million last year to study whether people could smell their urine after eating asparagus. The studies – there were two of them (* Study #1, and Study #1?) – surveyed nearly 7,000 people. The results, published in the British Medical Journal, concluded a “large proportion of individuals of European-American descent cannot smell ‘asparagus pee’.” They found that 58 percent of men and 62 percent of women were unable to smell the urinary metabolites produced after asparagus consumption.
* Something about this study smells funny all right.
* Individuals of European-American descent? So smelling asparagus pee is another white privilege?
* Remember when Harvard was a good school?
* What exactly are they trying to prove here?
* Oh, I know … they’re trying to prove the value of research grant money.
* Speaking of urine, they just pissed away $3 million.
* Next up for Harvard: A comprehensive examination of cabbage farts.