https://www.winonadailynews.com/news/local/frank-bures-of-bacteria-and-beards-and-bowser/article_f27b198c-6b30-545b-95ec-3c9c5fa48312.html

A curious article appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune Science and Health section, about a study of bacterial counts done of men’s beards and dogs’ hair. It found that the beards beat Bowser’s fur for higher bacterial counts of all kinds, even disease causing breeds. It piqued my twisted interest as to the purpose of the study.

In “looking it up on Google” there at are least two dozen news articles from every source imaginable reporting on this study (which might suggest how twisted folks are?) Published in the February 2019 European Radiology journal, it didn’t identify country of origin, but all the authors had Germanic names, making Germany, Austria or Switzerland possible. Apparently in their medical world, dogs are allowed to use the same MRI scanners as humans do. They were trying to assess if the animals had more bacteria of any kind on their fur than men had on their beards, as a model for nesting sites of microscopic critters along with gravy, etc. You sense an inherent bias in the study right away?