Christmas may be over, but the tradition of the Christmas issue of the BMJ as a treasury of weirdly funny, satirical or just plain bizarre research papers is the gift that keeps on giving – if you haven’t read it yet, you can enjoy such gems as: ‘Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking: Monty Python inspired laboratory based experimental study’, or even ‘Direct Uptake of Nutrition and Caffeine Study (DUNCS): biscuit based comparative study’.
It’s a cracker of an issue – so impress your friends with your evidence-based knowledge of the superiority of oat biscuits for tea-dunking, and enjoy …