I just thought I’d bring to anyone’s attention who might be interested, the “Skeptics Guide to the Universe” podcast did a segment in response to a listener email asking about the candiru fish and Rebecca referred to “Uncle Cecil whom we all know and love and trust” and the column. They confirm the plausibility of the operation and all the medical details as reported by Petry, but Rebecca is a little critical of Cecil in not being skeptical enough regarding the victim’s claim of exactly how the fish got where it it did in the first place, i.e. swimming up the urine stream (I can’t even bring myself to get more descriptive than that).
If anyone’s interested, here’s a link. It’s episode #200 and the segment begins at around 32:30 and is about 10 minutes long.
Enjoy!