I heard this on BBC radio a few days ago. It can’t be true. Can it? Apparently, more people have attended Star Trek conventions in the US than have given blood.
While I’m on the health and medicine theme, Boots the Chemist has announced plans to sell a £30 (USD$50) paternity kit. The simple “peace of mind” test will allow partners to check whom a child belongs to. Just watch the nuclear families explode.
I’ve never been to a purely-Star Trek convention, but the general-purpose science fiction conventions here in the San Francisco Bay Area often have a Bloodmobile come by on one of the days. Never compared the attendance of one to the Klingon-sponsored charity slave auction, though.