"_Betteridge's law of headlines_ is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Bett

"_Betteridge's law of headlines_ is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." It is named after Ian Betteridge, a British technology journalist who wrote about it in 2009, although the principle is much older."