Researchers finally figured out why your doctor's waiting room only has crappy old magazines

Why? After all, your doctor and the rest of the people working in the office are smart and presumably just as interested in good reading material as you are. So what’s up with the subpar selection?

Researchers wanted to know too. And they’ve answered the question in a study published in the Dec. 11 issue of the BMJ — the medical journal’s light-hearted “Christmas issue,” which uses science to tackle important and underaddressed questions like “seriously, are men really idiots?”

In theory, the lack-of-certain magazines problem could be the fault of doctors not buying them or patients stealing them.