> [...] However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.

I'm surprised they were permitted to use human participants for this in the first place. Should have been done in mice and on the floor of a lab, as a first pass.

Replication study required with more participants and potentially less extrapolation for higher altitudes. Seems to be a large assumption for high altitude applicability.

The Christmas edition of the BMJ traditionally includes some satire.

https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-authors/article-type...

I didn't know The Onion published studies.

As long as the protocol and data checks out, anything can be a study. That said, not everything is equally useful.

Now we need a double-blind version.

A within-subjects design would remove the influence of individual differences.

Ig Nobel candidate?