Science Finally Confirms That Men Are Idiots Who Do Stupid Things

Men are idiots.

At least according to new research published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ), which says men are much more likely than women to die in utterly stupid ways.

The study comes as a part of The BMJ’s annual Christmas issue, famous for publishing jokey and pop culture-based (but real) research.

The all-male team analyzed data from the Darwin Awards, which commends and records those who die incredibly idiotic ways.

The logic is these casualties ensure the human race’s gene pool gets a little better by keeping the dumbest from procreating.

It’s pretty much The Onion of evolution.

Researchers found between 1995 and 2014, men made up almost 90 percent of the 318 verifiable Darwin Award winners.

The team members said this is about all the evidence they need to back up popular opinion that men don’t think.

They concluded,

According to ‘male idiot theory’ (MIT) many of the differences in risk seeking behaviour, emergency department admissions, and mortality may be explained by the observation that men are idiots and idiots do stupid things…

This [study’s] finding is entirely consistent with male idiot theory (MIT) and supports the hypothesis.

In an attempt to explain the discrepancy between sexes, the team proposed the “bulletproof” feeling of too much alcohol as a possible cause for idiocy.

They wrote it seems to fuel the dumbest deaths, adding,

For example, the three men who played a variation on Russian roulette alternately taking shots of alcohol and then stamping on an unexploded Cambodian land mine.

(Spoiler alert: the mine eventually exploded, demolishing the bar and killing all three men.)

The statistics are a little puzzling, but the research team intends to further investigate and conduct “observational field studies and an experimental study — males and females, with and without alcohol — in a semi-naturalistic Christmas party setting.”

Best of luck, boys.

http://elitedaily.com/news/world/science-confirms-men-idiots-do-stupid-things/879391/

It's official! Men really are stupider than women, accounting for 90 per cent of people who have died in foolish ways, according to the Darwin Awards

A 20 year study of the Darwin Awards, an annual review of the most foolish way people have died, found almost 90 per cent were 'won' by males.

Named after Charles Darwin, who postulated the suvival of the fittest, it recognises those who have inadvertently improved the gene pool by elimiating themselves from the human race by astonishingly stupid methods.

Worthy candidates have included a man stealing a ride home by hitching a shopping trolley to the back of a train, only to be dragged two miles to his death before it was able to stop, and the terrorist who unthinkingly opened his own letter bomb on its return after he posted it with insufficient stamps.

Other examples include the man who shot himself in the head with a 'spy pen' weapon to show his friend it was real, and the thief attempting to purloin a steel hawser from a lift shaft - and unbolted it while standing in the lift which then plummeted to the ground, killing him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11288874/Men-really-are-more-stupid-than-women-research-shows.html