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This is not Front Page News. The study that the above article refers to is very old (1995).

The results of the very real NASA study was first published in "NASA Tech Briefs", April 1995 Issue, in an article titled, "Using Spider-Web Patterns to Determine Toxicity", by Drs. R. J. Cronise, and R. A. Relwani. The New Yorker Magazine had a lot of fun with it at the time, claiming such things as, the results of the study had identified caffeine as the "human error drug".

I remember reading about it and thinking, "This is what our taxes are going for?!!!"

I'm normally a big supporter of NASA, but this one was way off base.

Thankyou for backing me up on this one, A-A. I knew I'd seen it a long time ago... and yet the poster of the article accuses me of "freaking out".

"Freaking out" indeed... *ahem*, where I come from it's called "calling a spade a spade", or in this case, "calling old (and somewhat weird) research by it's true name - that is, NOT "Front Page News". Sheesh!