Frozen feces knives don't work—experimental replication

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Here is one you can try at home:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371

Experimental replication shows knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work​

Author links open overlay panelMetin I.ErenabMary AnnRaghantia
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An ethnographic account states an Inuit man made a knife from his own frozen feces.

We experimentally tested knives manufactured from frozen human feces.

Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work.
 
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We would not be testing enough varieties of feces under controlled conditions. Please post your mailing address so that we can all mail you representative samples for testing. :-p
 
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Grad students who accumulate enough results can write feces theses.
 
An excellent reference is Swanson, J Building With Poop.