How much do they pay these people … and why?

Americans have often been accused of being a little bit behind the times, but this latest revelation from the University of Illinois just takes the mick.

Yes, those obscenely high-paid professors released the findings of research last week which revealed that the Bee Gees song Staying Alive “lives up to its name”, as it has almost the perfect rythmn for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

I did my First Aid at Work course back in February of this year, at which the people running the course said exactly the same thing, without the unnecessary research by people who surely have better things to do.

Thankfully, it’s not just this side of the pond with sense. The American Heart Association has also been using the song for a while (two years) – and certainly long before the research began.

What really amuses me about the situation, though, is that the Doctor who carried out the research said that the findings warrant further, larger, more definitive research.

Or he could just do the world a favour and get a life – before he bores us all to death!