Why is Rudolph’s nose red? Paul Quayle/Alamy Stock Photo
Christmas聽is coming, and so are the cheesy seasonal science stories. For most of the year, the BMJ publishes some of the most important medical research conducted today. But at the end of the year, it turns to what it calls 鈥渓ight-hearted fare and satire鈥澛犫 also known as silly tabloid fodder.
The work, while 鈥渞eal鈥 according to the BMJ, has at times been impossible to test or based on fictional characters and traits. The journal has previously published a paper looking at whether the
