President Obama is officially a parasite, thanks to scientists
 

President Obama is officially a parasite, thanks to scientists
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It's ** **bel Peace Prize, but Barack Obama has a new ho**r to brag about. Scientists have named a parasite after him — and there's ** worming out of it.*

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 ho**r, **t 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 ho**r our president," Platt says. Read more...

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