Well, shades of Sherlock.

Out of you, miss Sherlock, nothing.

What was the lady's name, Sherlock?

Has Sherlock Holmes found any clues?

For instance, Sherlock Holmes played the violin,

All right, I'll have it with you, Sherlock.

Okay. Let's face it. We ain't Sherlock Holmeses.

Impressive, Sherlock Holmes. Someone has made weapons here.

You can talk all you like about Sherlock Holmes.

Oh, it's just like Sherlock Holmes and his fiddle.

You might not know that Conan Doyle went to medical school here in Edinburgh, and his character, Sherlock Holmes, was inspired by Sir Joseph Bell.

They are difficult and expensive to access experimentally, and we cannot rely on our intuition to fill in the blanks. The patient accumulation of fact recommended by Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and Sherlock Holmes is thus no longer practical.

As Sherlock Holmes understood, a dog that does not bark in the nighttime usually goes unnoticed. In Europe s case, the European Union s fiscal rules are at issue, and the Commission in principle the EU s watchdog should bark loudly when they are flouted.

In fact, the WHO repeatedly violated Sherlock Holmes warning, It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. And the pandemic alert was doubly strange, given that ordinary seasonal flu sweeps the world annually, is invariably far more lethal than the currently circulating low virulence H1N1, and certainly meets the WHO s definition of a pandemic infections over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of the population.