Reported from the Ig Nobel prize ceremony, a take off of the Nobel Prize. Reprinted with out permission from mini-AIR.

Several tributes to the concept of Biodiversity were presented at the Ig Nobel ceremony. Thirteen-year old Kate Eppers, spokesperson for the Committee for Bacterial Rights, said:

We live in a diverse society. Our biggest ethnic groups are not the Asians, the Africans or the Caucasians. Our biggest ethnic groups are the Bacteria. I used to wash my hands every day. My mom made me. But then I learned about ethnic cleansing. Every time you wash your hands, you wipe out billions and billions of Bacteria. Thats not fair. Bacteria have rights, too. So lets be grown-ups about this. When mom asks you to wash your hands, just say No.

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