MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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I'll do it for £5 per midge bite
Provided you’re in the product group and not the control group…
%£$" that, I'd rather go without the cash
Given where and when that's a bit like volunteering to breathe for 8hrs and being paid for the privilege isn't it?
Like being eaten by Piranhas. But a slower death.
Provided you’re in the product group and not the control group…
notice they say ‘we are testing midge repellent’ not that you are. 🙂
We use malaria human challenge studies to test new antimalarial drugs and vaccines. Inoculation used to be arm in a box. Now you can be inoculated by sporozoites without the bites.
Nice review of reproducibility here: https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-021-06953-4
And yes, you get paid.
Having never really encountered the Scottish level's of midges, only a few near a river when camping, but I've seen video of the Scottish blighters - enough to avoid the place all together.
No chance.
Nope, no way. I'm oot
Not really a fair trial as those who volunteer are probably the ones who don’t get bitten in a group or whose skin barely reacts. 8hrs? 10mins is torture
Other people will be near by ? Perfect. I'd be up for. That apart from I'm no where close .
I appear to be midges and mozzies last resort and any one else will be eaten alive first.
Not really a fair trial
I don't think they care as long as it gives them the ability to say "7 out of 10 of our testers...."
“7 out of 10 of our testers….”
Science !!!
Whatever, paying midges to bite people can't be right.
5 minutes is covered by the "up to 8 hours" bit 👍
7 out of 10 of our testers…
... Took over 8 hours to fully dessicate.
😂😂😂
I remember ride-leading on an event in Scotland and stopping at a feed station. It was an absolute cloud of midges, the sky was grey with them. Riders were rolling in, parking their bikes and seconds later leaping around slapping any exposed skin.
Everyone ran in, grabbed the food and legged it again quick, there were people riding off carrying unpeeled bananas in their mouth, shoving all manner of food down jerseys, up shorts legs - anywhere just to stash the food and get moving. About 3 miles later was a small climb up to an exposed ridge with enough wind to disperse the midges so everyone was sitting up there to eat.
The poor staff at the feed station were all covered in mozzie rep, midge nets, hats etc, they'd even lit a small smoky bonfire to try and disperse them but there was a big cloud of midges over the entire site. The event vans still had midges in them 2 days later. One driver emptied an entire can of Raid into his van, spraying every nook and cranny with the stuff. The van reeked although it did seem to do the job.
As for the "paid opportunity" - it would have to be paying the equivalent of a decent lottery win to get me interested!
<p>8hrs exposed to midges?!</p><p> </p><p>There is simply just no way I’d even consider that. I’m not sure I’d do that even if you paid off my mortgage. It would be actual yet voluntary torture </p>
I heard that there is no control group - one arm with "HopethisworksdeargodTM" and the other untreated. Also £100 mentioned.
Dont think so.
Also £100 mentioned
Total. Not in a million years.
Per hour. Hmmm... 🤔🤔🤔
Per minute. Definitely getting interested.
Jeepers!
Me and wife spent a 2 nights in the campsite opposite the lochranza distillery on Arran, evenings fully kitted up like beekeepers. A group of shorts & t-shirt Swedish students arrived on the second night and some were actually crying. No money would be enough
From da article
"But a lot of people are actually fascinated by midges anyway, so people will come out because they want to see what's going on."
Eh?
Also from da article:
Dr Allison Blackwell of APS biocontrol, said that while the candidates would certainly get bitten, it should not be too bad.
"When a midge lands on your skin, it kind of wanders around before it starts to bite," she said.
"So at that point, one of the staff running the project will take that insect off, so you get very few bites to be honest."
Staff:
The control group from the earlier session seem happy enough:
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The only possible answer to the midge problem:
How can they make it more horrifying than reality?
In any good clinical trial 50% of participants will be on the placebo, so in this case **** no, I don't like those odds!
In any good clinical trial 50% of participants will be on the placebo, so in this case **** no, I don’t like those odds!
Or left arm right arm...