Sir not only did you publish John Coates’ “
Traders would do well to track their hormones” April 15, in which, based on the study of the saliva of 17 male traders over eight days, the author suggests we complement the efforts of our bank regulators to drive risk out from banking, with driving out any risk taking stimulators such as testosterones from our trading floors, but you also have
Clive Cookson reporting fully on the same nonsense including a photo of testosterone in action.
Unless this is a complete mess up of an April fool joke I sincerely think you owe your readers an apology. Are we to extend this type of risk adverseness litmus tests to the professionals working for the credit rating agencies too? Why do we not start with FT editors? Seeing that you completely lost control!