Proof positive - Scots brainier than Germans

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=bc2c05ca-9515-49fd-9aab-ee7103cf22f5

http://www.thelocal.de/13391/20080730/

Och, Mon, was there ever any doot?

OK, Albert, you can stop that turning. The title is, of course, frivolous but two successive, brief items of a major daily, today, might have some believing the truth of the statement - despite the Einstein anomaly.

While a Scottish ban on smoking reduced heart attacks a phenomenal 17% over a year, a German court has overturned legislation that would support a similar controls.