Stating the obvious

Aren't scientists clever? Take, for example, these two quotes from the Daily Telegraph today:

Dr Neville Owen of the University of Queensland suggests people should simply pay more attention to sitting less. Most of us apparently spend more than half our waking hours on what he describes as "sedentary activities". And the longer people sit, the more likely they are to become overweight, irrespective of the amount of food consumed. [Italics mine].

And all this time, I thought sitting still would help me get thin!

Or,

Some children are just born with ODD - Oppositional Defiance Disorder - a pattern of negative and hostile behaviour that is impervious to the strictest disciplinary sanctions.

Well of course children are born with 'Oppositional Defiance Disorder' - it's proper name is 'original sin'!