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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2353942" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/08/barack-obama-officially-a-parasite-after-scientists-name-worm-after-president/" target="_blank">Barack Obama Officially a Parasite: Scientists Name Worm After President - Breitbart</a></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him – and there’s no worming out of it.</strong></span></p><p>Meet Baracktrema obamai, a tiny parasitic flatworm that lives in turtles’ blood. A new study officially names the two-inch-long, hair-thin creature after Obama.</p><p></p><p>Thomas Platt, the newly retired biology professor at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana who chose the name, says it’s an honor, not an insult. Really.</p><p></p><p>Platt, who discovered and named the flatworm to crown his career before retiring, has 32 new species to his credit. In the past, he’s named them after his father-in-law, his doctorate adviser “and other people I have a great deal of respect for. This is clearly something in my small way done to honor our president,” Platt says.</p><p></p><p>A distant relative of the president, Platt says people pay thousands of dollars for the privilege of having a species named after them.</p><p></p><p>Parasites get a bad rap. Platt says this one reminds him of the president: “It’s long. It’s thin. And it’s cool as hell.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2353942, member: 12952"] [URL="http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/08/barack-obama-officially-a-parasite-after-scientists-name-worm-after-president/"]Barack Obama Officially a Parasite: Scientists Name Worm After President - Breitbart[/URL] [SIZE=5][B]Obama has a new honor to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him – and there’s no worming out of it.[/B][/SIZE] Meet Baracktrema obamai, a tiny parasitic flatworm that lives in turtles’ blood. A new study officially names the two-inch-long, hair-thin creature after Obama. Thomas Platt, the newly retired biology professor at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana who chose the name, says it’s an honor, not an insult. Really. Platt, who discovered and named the flatworm to crown his career before retiring, has 32 new species to his credit. In the past, he’s named them after his father-in-law, his doctorate adviser “and other people I have a great deal of respect for. This is clearly something in my small way done to honor our president,” Platt says. A distant relative of the president, Platt says people pay thousands of dollars for the privilege of having a species named after them. Parasites get a bad rap. Platt says this one reminds him of the president: “It’s long. It’s thin. And it’s cool as hell.” [/QUOTE]
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