The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.
- Travis Walton
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My colleagues have all heard of the Mad Biologist's Rule of Base Ten Numbers: when you see too many numbers that end with zero, become skeptical. That's because only one in ten numbers should do should end in zero.
US banks setting aside $70 billion for year end bonuses.
We conclude Bank of America is overgenerous and JP Morgan are cheap bastards.
from Grauniad:
Would sexier oceans get a bigger budget?
In 2006, the U.S. alone spent an estimated $13.3 billion on the sex and porn industry. Worldwide, it was estimated sex industry sales were $97 billion.
The Wall Street Journal reports an estimate of the economic impact of the Human Genome Project (italics mine):
Or of course, if a billion people believe in a stupid idea (creationism), it's still a stupid idea.