For three months, Dr. Lennox Archibald, an epidemiologist at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine, tested faucets, paper dispensers and door handles inside the bathrooms of approximately 22 aircraft and fastfood restaurants. He was looking for bugs like staphylococcus and bacillus, which can make you sick. And what he and his colleagues found was just shocking!: in some instances "the quantity of microorganisms was too numerous to count.”

“I was surprised,'' reports Dr. Archibald, who will present his findings Friday to the Infectious Diseases Society of America in Boston. "But, at same time, I wasn’t surprised because people use these things and people touch things.”

You see what he did there? He confirmed our point: duh.

He should have taken his inquiry one step further and reported how many of the bathrooms had working soap dispensers. Now that would be shocking.