Science has now proven what all but the dumbest among us already knew -- Coca-Cola is not effective as birth control -- but research now shows that it's not as bad as you probably think.
At Harvard University's annual Ig Nobel Awards -- a satirical honor for the latest in outrageous research -- this year's kudos went to medical researchers at Boston University who published a study that proves Coke actually kills sperm on contact.
Diet Coke is an even more effective spermicide, according to the work of Gynecology Professor Deborah Anderson and her team, who published their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Not that it's my job to play school nurse, but let us get one thing straight: Anderson and her colleagues were just putting an old Urban Legend to the test -- and they were doing it as a joke. You wouldn't want to drink or douche with the soft drink in place of, say, using a condom.
"We're thrilled to win an Ig Nobel, because the study was somewhat of a parody in the first place," Anderson said.
To underscore this information, the Ig Nobel committee also honored a group of Taiwanese doctors that proved the soft drink doesn't work as a contraceptive, even if it does kill sperm.
