Science | worst jobs 10 Worst Jobs in Science By Alp Arslan Posted Apr 13, 2010 9:48 PM CDT Posted Apr 13, 2010 9:48 PM CDT Promoted on Newser Apr 14, 2010 9:18 AM CDT Copied A village woman makes cow dung cakes, and arranges them to be sun dried in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh) Popular Science's annual list of the worst jobs in science has some doozies this year. Dung collector Jim Mead, a prof at East Tennessee State University, has the largest collection of excrement in the world, around 13,000 specimens, many from the Ice Age. The folks at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia have been studying arm pit odor since 1973. And our favorite: whale organ collector. For the rest of the top 10 see the full list. Read These Next 11 people hurt in a "brutal act of violence" in Michigan. White House makes Hegseth put his polygraph away. A new book argues the Sacagawea legend is all wrong. A parent's nightmare, in a white cardboard box. Report an error