Was this really necessary?

[TOG]

Active commuters felt better able to concentrate and under less strain than when travelling by car, University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers said.

Even going by public transport was preferable to driving, data from 18,000 UK commuters over 10 years suggested.

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Taking the bus or cycling or walking to work causes people less stress than driving in rush-hour traffic. Did they really need to spend all that time and money to figure that out?

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[th1b.taylor]

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Taking the bus or cycling or walking to work causes people less stress than driving in rush-hour traffic. Did they really need to spend all that time and money to figure that out?

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Stupidity has no cure. The American government can't find one place more to cut back even though they still fund research such as the Sex Life Of The Peruvian Prostitutes. (This one remembered from the late sixties to early seventies but the stupidity goooes on.)

 

[Eugene]

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Taking the bus or cycling or walking to work causes people less stress than driving in rush-hour traffic. Did they really need to spend all that time and money to figure that out?

The TOG​

People need jobs. They can now study whether people are calmer on their scheduled days off rather than riding the transit.

 

[Knotical]

They say these studies come out of various universities around the world, when really I think they only come from one place: The Institute for the Glaringly Obvious.

It goes by other names as well, but that is the most popular.

 

[Gary]

Taxpayers fund silly studies

On Sept. 20, Improbable Research — an organization comprised mostly of scientists who like to make fun of other scientists — handed out their annual Ig Nobel Prizes. The awards ceremony celebrates some of the oddest, most unusual and silliest ideas in scientific achievement.

What the Razzies are to movies, the Ig Nobel Prize is to scientific research.

It’s an opportunity to have a good chuckle at brilliant people putting their considerable talents towards some pretty goofy research. The awards would be pretty funny… if taxpayers weren’t often the butt of the joke.

One of the most ridiculous recipients of the Ig Nobel Prize was funded courtesy of grants from the National Institutes of Health, which, of course, is funded with federal tax dollars. About 31 billion of them, to be precise.

http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2012/sep/30/taxpayers-fund-silly-studies-chattanooga/
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