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Research Christmas 2014: Going to Extremes

The Darwin Awards: sex differences in idiotic behaviour

BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7094 (Published 11 December 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7094

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Yes! the source of the data for this "silly science" was up there with "silly".

Just google/ You Tube "Darwin Awards " and you will see the basis upon which this research is based is really silly...... However, it is important to prevent this silliness from diverting attention from the difficulty men seem to have consulting doctors in both acute and chronic circumstances. Alternatively self destructive behaviour in men is more often than not more violent/ effective....than in women. As I tried to say before, irony must be carefully constructed and conveyed .......or else it becomes sarcasm ...which is the lowest form of wit.

Yours truly
Irony

Competing interests: No competing interests

02 February 2015
Alison Burton
Doctor of medicine
GMC, BMA, BCAM
Kaskilankuja 3/1 20540, Turku, Finland