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Fri Dec 12 11:59:15 CST 2014

Previous Christmas articles from the journal have attempted to diagnose Star Wars' Jar Jar Binks <http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7276/1619.full?view=long&pmid=11124204> and used a "covert observational study" to assess the survival time of chocolates on hospital wards <http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7198>.

The journal's Christmas edition of spoof stories and silly - yet peer-reviewed studies - has become so notorious that, in 2009, a Danish journal conducted a study of citations of BMJ Christmas articles, investigating to what extent the studies were reported at face value <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20018155>, rather than taking their humorous intent into account

Bekah 
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