Bring In The Clowns
In another media story that means very little, clowns are being brought into a Canadian hospital to help get women pregnant. Sound ridiculous? Two professionally trained, university accredited medical clowns from Israel are presented a conference at the McGill University Health Centre’s reproductive centre about the link between clowning and fertility rates. In a study of 219 women undergoing in vitro fertilization treatments, 36 per cent of the women entertained for 15 minutes by a medical clown following the implantation of the embryo became pregnant, compared with 20 per cent for those who were not. As an interesting side note, those 16% who became pregnant had babies born with red balls on their noses.
Another laugh! Thanks again.
Who needs red balls?
“Entertained”? You gotta be kidding. Clowns are SCARY.
You really should have seen the rat study that preceded the human trial.
That’s funny.
Fantastic. Like there aren’t enough babies being born on the dole – which in Canada would mean, all of them – so now the horrible redundancy of government clowns is brought to bare, uh, bear. How long before ACOG, the AAP, and advocacy groups for the non-self-funded all begin to holler likewise for center-ring treatment? At least there will be a surplus of Chevy Volts for them all to pack into.