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A tudományos kutatásokról készült prezentációk általában szárazak és unalmasak. Időről időre azonban akadnak olyan tudósok is, akik amellett, hogy figyelemreméltó kutatásokat folytatnak, ezek hatásos és lebilincselő előadására is képesek. Közülük is vakítóan fénylő üstökösként emelkedik ki Sir Giles Skey Brindley GBE, aki az American Urological Association 1983-as las vegasi naggyűlésén úgy demonstrálta a merevedési zavar gyógyításának kutatásában elért eredményeit, hogy először is a hotelszobában akkurátusan beinjektálta a pélóját fenoxibenzaminnal, majd az előadás végén letolta kék színű mackónadrágját és büszkén megmutatta az eredményt a körülbelül 80 főre tehető, az ünnepélyes esti fogadáshoz öltözött közönségnek. Igen.

The Professor wanted to make his case in the most convincing style possible. He indicated that, in his view, no normal person would find the experience of giving a lecture to a large audience to be erotically stimulating or erection-inducing. He had, he said, therefore injected himself with papaverine in his hotel room before coming to give the lecture, and deliberately wore loose clothes (hence the track-suit) to make it possible to exhibit the results. He stepped around the podium, and pulled his loose pants tight up around his genitalia in an attempt to demonstrate his erection.

At this point, I, and I believe everyone else in the room, was agog. I could scarcely believe what was occurring on stage. But Prof. Brindley was not satisfied. He looked down sceptically at his pants and shook his head with dismay. ‘Unfortunately, this doesn’t display the results clearly enough’. He then summarily dropped his trousers and shorts, revealing a long, thin, clearly erect penis. There was not a sound in the room. Everyone had stopped breathing.

But the mere public showing of his erection from the podium was not sufficient. He paused, and seemed to ponder his next move. The sense of drama in the room was palpable. He then said, with gravity, ‘I’d like to give some of the audience the opportunity to confirm the degree of tumescence’. With his pants at his knees, he waddled down the stairs, approaching (to their horror) the urologists and their partners in the front row. As he approached them, erection waggling before him, four or five of the women in the front rows threw their arms up in the air, seemingly in unison, and screamed loudly. The scientific merits of the presentation had been overwhelmed, for them, by the novel and unusual mode of demonstrating the results.

Laurence Klotz: How (not) to communicate new scientific information: A memoir of the famous Brindley lecture
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1464-410X.2005.05797.x/full

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