With rumours abounding that there is a curse on the London 2012 Olympic Games following a series of deaths of competing athletes, by a strange coincidence it has been revealed that 100% of athletes who competed in the 1908 London Olympics have also died. [read...]
The Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, is hoping to dispel the ‘myth’ that insufficient evidence should ever dissuade the police or courts from pursuing newspaper headlines with meaningless statistics. [read...]
‘We plan to reduce the number of hospitals, performing at less than average,’ said Michael Moroney. ‘We are confident that in three years’ time only 25% of hospitals will have lower than average mortality rates’. [read...]
An advert for Pantene Pro-V shampoo has set a new industry standard after the small print revealed that the central claim of the campaign was disagreed with by over 90% of the tiny sample surveyed. [read...]
The mathematical community has been left underwhelmed as the result of the monkeys’ massed labours was finally revealed to be a mid-week installment of Hollyoaks as opposed to the expected Complete Works of Shakespeare. [read...]
