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Nature 443, 616-617 (12 October 2006) | doi:10.1038/443616b; Published online 11 October 2006
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Hard-hitting endeavour captures Ig Nobel
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When Ivan Schwab first learned that he was slated to win an Ig Nobel prize for explaining why woodpeckers don't get headaches, his response was perhaps predictable for a man whose past had come back to haunt him: he denied everything."I didn't do the work," Schwab, an ophthalmologist at the University of California, Davis, told the event's organizer after being informed of the dubious honour in store for him.
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