Stop your hiccups now with this one weird trick. Folk wisdom has always

offered us lots of ways we can cure the hiccups with varying results.

But did you know that science has also thrown its hat into the ring with some remedies?

Some are proven, some are still in clinical trials, and some are just a little bit more than you probably want to go through.

Stopping hiccups with science is coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid. I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Stopping hiccups with science.

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I first got the idea to do this episode through self-reflection.

When I was a teenager, my family and I took one of many trips up to Alaska,

where my grandfather was a lifelong bush pilot,

not counting a couple of interruptions to fly in World War II and to have a career as a 747 captain for American Airlines.

On one such trip, he took us out to a rough rocky landing strip at a fishing lodge in the middle of nowhere.

I had a horrible bout of the hiccups that seemingly would not stop.

As fortune favors the foolish, it so happened that a very old man was the only other guest of the

lodge. It was said that he was an elder of an Athabaskan tribe, which seemed

exceptionally impressive and mysterious to the adolescent to me.

And what's more, he had a cure for the hiccups.

He stood behind me and placed his hands on my face and felt with his index fingers for a small notch at the bottom medial

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