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Editor's note: When we attempt to inject a little humor into our science content, sometimes it's overlooked. So be forewarned: humorous, not-entirely-serious science coverage ahead:

On Monday, a mass display of indecency by women who were indignant at a comment made by an Iranian cleric rocked the planet with earthquakes. Or did it? The number of earthquakes on Monday, particularly a 6.5-magnitude quake in Taiwan, might suggest that the tarting-up movement had some effect, but the boobquake founder's data breakdown says different. None of the analyses of the event thus far have met the rigorous statistical standards we require here at Ars, so we'll take a look at the shortcomings and draw up some numbers of our own.

A recent spate of earthquakes prompted an Iranian cleric, Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, to state that "many women who do not dress modestly ... lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes." In response, Jen McCreight of Blag Hag suggested that women should dress their sluttiest on April 26 to test Segidhi's theory, and christened the event "Boobquake." She also promised to run the numbers on earthquakes that day and see how it compared to the world's normal behavior.