January 29, 2008
No kidding. First the guitar and then the cello. Both hoaxes. A former professor (doctor) at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London, Baroness Murphy decided to send in a letter in 1974 to the British Medical Journal describing the condition. It was meant as a joke, but the BMJ published it and it has been floating around in the literature until she came clean when it surfaced in December.
The BBC writer had a little fun: "A spokesman for the BMJ said that, 34 years on, no-one faced the sack for failing to spot the implausible condition."
Cyclist scrotum marathon nipples and are very real and very painful nonhoaxes. I wonder if they've tried manssieres...
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