First, we needed a representative, unbiasedsample of news stories, so we bought every one of the top 10 bestselling UK newspapers, every day for one week.
To find out, you'd have to take a systematic and unbiasedsample – perhaps a whole week's worth of stories – and then check the evidence behind every claim.
With a pristine and unbiasedsample of interstellar dust they can truly find out if and by how much the elements of our own world differ from others throughout the galaxy.