News that Vexes: 01/01/2007 - 02/01/2007

News that Vexes

It's so tiresome to read 'new studies' that reveal Smoking, Stress or Obesity are Bad for you. Yet these studies appear all the time. It's time to take back the newswire from so-called Scientists!

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Programmers to blame for hard-to-use software

I guess my only question is "who else could possibly be to blame?" I mean, the title even uses the phrase 'hard-to-use software'. Thanks Harvard professor David Platt, you are quite the brainiac.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

67 too old to give birth says Italian fertility doctor (who helped 63-yr old give birth)

I mean come on, 67 is just plain too old. 63, though? MEOW!!!

Teens binge drink, government study finds

So basically when kids engage in an illegal activity, they tend to do it quickly and to excess (because it's illegal and presumably want to take as much advantage of the situation as possible). Who would have guessed it?

Also, and even more, uh, surprising is:
These binge drinkers -- who had five or more drinks in a row -- were more likely to have sex, fight, smoke or use drugs, the study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found.

Uh, YEAH! Shproing! Well I never woulda thought!

Many thanks to the pioneering, groundbreaking, vexing-news-making Jacqueline Miller of the CDC. Sadly I couldn't find her email (you'd think she'd be proud of this research, no?) so we can't send her mail congratulating her on her discoveries.