Well Duh!

I’m always reading about some new study that claims to reveal something heretofore completely unknown to science or the intelligentsia.

Recently, I saw one that reported something maybe slightly interesting while another would likely make even the most unschooled rube exclaim, “Well, duh!”

The first study, which appeared in the Aug. 3 online edition of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, said researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University found many very old people – we’re talking 95 and older – had achieved that great age not by taking care of themselves but seemingly by NOT taking…