THE MAGIC VAGINA THAT CONTROLS MEN’S MINDS

If you aren’t familiar with James Randi yet, all you need to know is that the man offers a $1 milllion reward to anyone who can demonstrate paranormal abilities of any kind (check it out at Randi.org). Or course, Randi also changes the requirements whenever someone with actual powers claims the prize. But anyway, the point of this blurb is that the latest challenger for the $1 million prize is a woman named Jennifer Dziura, who, writing at McSweeneys.net, proposes a scientific test of her ability to control men’s minds with her vagina. In brief, her test involves two groups of men, one group within visual proximity of her vagina, and another group separated from her vagina by a leaden wall. She then asks the men to buy her a hamburger. “I predict that volunteers in visual proximity of my vagina will be at least 50 percent more likely to comply than those separated from my vagina by a leaden barrier,” she boldly predicts, adding, “I have previously obtained a number of hamburgers in this manner.”