This year’s British Medical Journal holiday issue includes an investigation of old magazines in waiting rooms and finds that men can be idiots. “The findings, published in the Christmas issue of the British Journal of Medicine, may not seem like the normal fare for the journal, but they are part of a great tradition. Every year, researchers publish papers that use proper scientific methods to answer questions of dubious importance. Last year 
researchers explained that James Bond probably couldn’t down martinis at the rate depicted in Ian Fleming’s novels without sacrificing his spy and lady-wooing abilities. Other reports explored the effect of formal attire on patient’s confidence in their doctors and the genetics of magical abilities.” Read more here.
