This is being picked up extensively elsewhere, but the IgNobel Award winner list is pretty hilarious. Chris Brooke takes a look at the winner for Medicine (”The Effect of Country Music on Suicide”) and surveys the social scientific literature on the depressive effects of country music. Talk about Media Effects research gone wrong. Yikes. At least some voices have reminded the field that the causation inferences here are a little shaky.
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