Hello, Curios. It's new series time next week and as we've been doing for the last...

I don't know how many series is now. More than one less than a hundred.

Accurates. Big air margin. We do a little preview for the podcast listeners.

Not to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4. No, this is your chance listeners to see the kind of

absolute nonsense that scientists get up to and get paid for because it is time for our

series annual... What do you call it when it's every series?

The serial. Whatever. Anyway, it's time for silly science papers.

And we've got some excellent ones for you. A few quick wins should we do at the beginning,

just to kick us off. I've got one that I particularly like here. I don't know if you're going for it.

This one is called... I think a lot of the work is done by the title here.

It's called... Our cat's good, an important study.

A labelled an important study seems like... Yeah, yeah, struggling a bit there.

This is by Patrick Goen and Severine Lamont. They are Australian scientists, very serious

important scientists. Here's the abstract. Cats have four legs full stop. I mean...

Correct.

Mostly, actually, on average cats have less than four legs.

Yeah, they're full so true. Almost all cats have above average numbers of legs.

This isn't the paper, by the way. This is just... No, it's an interesting fact to go.

Extra cat. Yes. Cats can per. It goes on. However, science does not know if they're good.

Therefore, we ought to determine if cats are good. This was a consensus opinion study between the two

scientists. Sensitivity analysis were not considered. But results demonstrated that cats are good.

Limited sample size and use of anecdotal evidence may have been limitations.

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