Back in the motherland for the 40th anniversary reunion of the Glasgow Uni molecular biology class of '86.
David Hughes
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Glaswegian exile in Dublin. Librarian. Open scholarship enthusiast. Shill for Big Library. Power-hungry gatekeeper. King of infinite space. He/him/his. Personal account.
![Screenshot of Wikipedia article on Betteridge's law of headlines. Text if 1st paragraph:
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is based on the assumption that if the publishers were confident that the answer was yes, they would have presented it as an assertion; by presenting it as a question, they are not accountable for whether it is correct or not.
The law is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009.[1] The maxim has been cited by other names since 1991, when a published compilation of Murphy's law variants called it "Davis's law", a name that also appears online without any explanation of who Davis was.[2][3][4][5] It has also been referred to as the "journalistic principle" and in 2007 was referred to in commentary as "an old truism among journalists".[6][7][8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l3ibzqkjnuyz5lnl33ujcblp/bafkreigiekoox3qtlh4pmjqeatpa7wp7yoc4c7s6x7eppvkhq3qka7xysy)
![Metadata for article [extended abstract] entitled "AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l3ibzqkjnuyz5lnl33ujcblp/bafkreifabzbi5kgrkmjdtfpn7mvqx5pe3m4a7x7gep7sk6fomesdxcu7vi)
