Putting their finger on the truth

Nowhere in today's Guardian article about the Ig Nobel awards did I spot a reference to the discovery that a finger up the rectum is an effective cure for the hiccups. I can't think why.

Surely this is the kind of pioneering research about which the public has a right to know.

Think of all those times when, travelling home on the bus after a drink-sodden night out, you have embarrassed yourself with a persistent "hic, hic, hic" - an audible signifier of your dissolute nature. Now you can put a stop to that discomfiture in seconds.