On a related note, if society were more rational, I wouldn't have to be sad reading paragraphs like this one:

Some cancer doctors commended the new research, saying said that despite the limitations of the analyses, no other long-term clinical trials of aspirin and cancer are likely to be done because of the enormous expense involved and the fact that aspirin is a cheap generic drug.

On a completely tangential note if you were more rational you wouldn't have to be sad reading paragraphs like that one either. It doesn't seem to be of much practical benefit.