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Great moments in scientific research

"Outraged scientists stormed out of a government-sponsored climate change conference dinner in Canberra last night, after the strippers booked as entertainment left them all hot and bothered."
- Climate conference strip show storm, smh.com.au, 7.9.06

The main entertainment at the official dinner of the 17th Australia New Zealand Climate Forum (run by the Australian National University, and whose event page has expired) was a female burlesque act.

Symbolism for a vanishing ecosystem? Or living proof that science is still a boy's club?