Ever thought that researchers are wasting your country's money determining things that seemed to be obvious? Well, here's a thread to share all those riddiculous research "breakthroughs" -- whether they actually wasted valuable money or you just thought up one.

Here's one to start people off:

Researchers Determine that One Doctor in a Group of Five Will Always Disagree With the Other Four.

Yeah, a guy in a Melbourne University spent something like $50,000 in a quest to determine that Jesus was gay. All taxpayer dollars.

Why'd he do so?


all kinds of idiots seem to live on the Earth...

lol :D

didn't congress do some stupid study not to long ago? something like 70% of all ,lose weight fast commercials are fake? so they didn't investigate the other 30%

Somebody said that it's not hydrogen there's most of in the Universe, but stupidity.
But we get to laugh at it.
Doesn't seem the taxpayer's money is completely wasted.

Research has comprehensively shown that people who are right handed will use their right hand more than ninety percent of time for doing anything. Research on the left handed people is on the way.;)

Originally posted by Vancouver2010
Researchers Determine that One Doctor in a Group of Five Will Always Disagree With the Other Four.

Well, 9 out of 10 Americans agree that out of ten Americans, one will always disagree with the other 9.

Comprehensive studies have shown that 47.3% of the time, researchers add a fake decimal digit, just to sound more accurate and believable.

Originally posted by The Person
Somebody said that it's not hydrogen there's most of in the Universe, but stupidity.
But we get to laugh at it.
Doesn't seem the taxpayer's money is completely wasted.

I know. I'ts just 99.999% wasted. Our ability to laugh at the wasted money thwarted all their efforts to be completely efficient at wasting money.

Originally posted by The Person
Somebody said that it's not hydrogen there's most of in the Universe, but stupidity.

Actually, that may just be that illusive "dark matter" ;)

Originally posted by allhailIndia
Comprehensive studies have shown that 47.3% of the time, researchers add a fake decimal digit, just to sound more accurate and believable.

Actually, 48.3 percent of all statistics are made up, while 183.3% of those statistics are wrong.

Not to forget that 97.832% of all statistics, 19 times out of 20, have been proven to contain the phrase "19 times out of 20" somewhere in them.

53.32% of people polled on whether or not they were a statistic said maybe.

Cars polute our air, And acording to recent researce AIR IS GOOD.. Some great research went into that one. :D

allhailIndia: Research has actually shown that 85.4000% of the time scientists add an extra zero (or multiple extra zeros) to sound more accurate.

Aaah, but only 33.23000 % of all scientists put an odd number of zeroes, while the rest are still figuring out where to put the zeroes

Scientists are getting to research what is the last number of Pi .
i say it is 0.
for zeros
losers
:lol:

Latest research has shown the number Pi is actually 3.1415926535 +- 0.0000000001

Comprehansive reseach has shown that reproduction is neccesary for the continuation of a species.

A detailed research and analysis of 100 year trends have shown that average stupidity of people is more or less unrelated to anything else.

Research has shown that pi is 3 +- 0.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375 10582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706 79821480865132823066470938446095505822317253594081 28481117450284102701...

Yeah. What's the use in counting pi's decimals...:confused::ack: 3.14 is good enough...

Biros don't work in space so the US researchers spent 10 years and 12 billion dollars on a pen that would. The Russians used a pencil. Years of study in the 80's proved that bumble bees can't fly.