A study purportedly being conducted at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa hopes to prove that spider venom can be used to treat erectile dysfunction (via Bits of News). According to senior urologist Dr. Ilan Gruenwald, they're specifically examining the toxins of certain African and South American spiders, including the black widow, to test, well, the potency of spider juice...
Skeptical?
Exhibit A:
"The study was launched after a unexpected discovery; that men bitten by spiders often experienced unusually prolonged erections."
Riiiiight...
