#WasteOfTheDay: $6.9M 'Smart Toilet' Analyzes 'Analprint'

 

While internet memes poke fun at China’s anal-swab COVID-19 testing, one U.S. Senator examined federally funded backside research here at home.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) highlighted a National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded “smart toilet” as part of his annual federal government waste report.

Stanford University researcher Seung-min Park wrote that the notion of an “analprint” was observed by artist Salvador Dali, who found, Park said, that “the anus has 35 or 37 creases, which are as unique as fingerprints.”

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