Does Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Make Us Look Fat? No. But it is the eponymous law that states, “If it ends in a question, the answer is ‘no.'” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines”
We were talking earlier about eponymous laws.
Here’s one I really like.
Do you know Betteridge’s Law of Headlines?
Yes.
If it asks a question, the answer is probably no.
Yes.
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
Did aliens actually abduct the president and replace him with a clone?
No.
Is coffee bad for you?
Right, because it plays on the thing they do in news, which is in order to get you to read the story, they suggest something preposterous and then at the very bottom say, no.
Actually, the answer is no.
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