NOW they tell us:
A common parasite can increase a women’s attractiveness to the opposite sex but also make men more stupid, an Australian researcher says.
And all the time I thought it was more than a dozen beers. That also explains the theory that God used a rib from man to create woman, because he couldn’t find a brain. MORE:
About 40 per cent of the world’s population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, including about eight million Australians.
Human infection generally occurs when people eat raw or undercooked meat that has cysts containing the parasite, or accidentally ingest some of the parasite’s eggs excreted by an infected cat.
So be careful next time you’re hanging around an excreting cat, guys. Hey: maybe THIS is why so many women have cats..
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.