always good for a larf: this year's winners of the ig nobel prize.

e.g. the coca cola company in chemistry (source: the guardian): "take Thames Water from the tap in your factory in Sidcup, Kent; put it through a purification process, call it 'pure' and give it a mark-up from 0.03p to 95p per half litre; in the process, add a batch of calcium chloride, containing bromide, for 'taste profile'; then pump ozone through it, oxidising the bromide – which is not a problem – into bromate – which is. Finally, dispatch to the shops bottles of water containing up to twice the legal limit for bromate (10 micrograms per litre)."

or in economics: The Vatican, for outsourcing prayers to India.