Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?

Objective To explore the perceived wisdom that papal mortality is related to the success of the Welsh rugby union team. Design Retrospective observational study of historical Vatican and sporting data. Main outcome measure Papal deaths between 1883 and the present day. Results There is no evidence o...

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Autores principales: Payne, Gareth C, Payne, Rebecca E, Farewell, Daniel M
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19091757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2768
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Farewell, Daniel M
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description Objective To explore the perceived wisdom that papal mortality is related to the success of the Welsh rugby union team. Design Retrospective observational study of historical Vatican and sporting data. Main outcome measure Papal deaths between 1883 and the present day. Results There is no evidence of a link between papal deaths and any home nation grand slams (when one nation succeeds in beating all other competing teams in every match). There was, however, weak statistical evidence to support an association between Welsh performance and the number of papal deaths. Conclusion Given the dominant Welsh performances of 2008, the Vatican medical team should take special care of the pontiff this Christmas.
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spelling pubmed-26056152008-12-22 Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried? Payne, Gareth C Payne, Rebecca E Farewell, Daniel M BMJ Research Objective To explore the perceived wisdom that papal mortality is related to the success of the Welsh rugby union team. Design Retrospective observational study of historical Vatican and sporting data. Main outcome measure Papal deaths between 1883 and the present day. Results There is no evidence of a link between papal deaths and any home nation grand slams (when one nation succeeds in beating all other competing teams in every match). There was, however, weak statistical evidence to support an association between Welsh performance and the number of papal deaths. Conclusion Given the dominant Welsh performances of 2008, the Vatican medical team should take special care of the pontiff this Christmas. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2008-12-17 /pmc/articles/PMC2605615/ /pubmed/19091757 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2768 Text en © Payne et al 2008 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
title Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
title_full Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
title_fullStr Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
title_full_unstemmed Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
title_short Rugby (the religion of Wales) and its influence on the Catholic church: should Pope Benedict XVI be worried?
title_sort rugby (the religion of wales) and its influence on the catholic church: should pope benedict xvi be worried?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19091757
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a2768
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