Another one from the same camp

On each field whatever it is you'll find at least one PhD who is a virulent dissenter. Most of them do it for the joy of dissenting and not for the money in it.

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

(What might have misled the author) A counter-intuitive result: Since the last war (with few exceptions) each year more people die from cancer than the year before. However in each age group less people die from cancer than the decades before. The increase in cancer related deaths is a spurious consequence of us living longer than before. The percentage of cancer deaths is an indicator of good health.

Wolfgang