The vast majority of doctors in the Middle Ages serial-killer thriller I’ve just finished bled patients to rid them of humours.

We now know that bleeding people to death was somewhat in error.

The vast majority of army brass told Accrington Pals and others to stroll to certain victory, even encouraging some to take a ball and dribble across no-man’s land.

This week we remembered just how wrong they were. The vast majority were sure it was okay to give mortgages to those who’d struggle with repayments.

This week, we’re counting the cost.

The vast majority were convinced that only education was required to cut teen-mum births.

Today, as we top the European children-giving-birth-to-children league, we know that’s wrong.

Love, relationships and morality and God need to be added.

Beware the ‘vast majority’.

For the last fortnight, Pastor Mills has been roasted in our Letters page for suggesting we should rely more on a creator than blind evolution and a big bang.

I’ve filled two dozen columns in recent years with evolution’s drawbacks but the vast majority appear to think Pastor Mills and I are wrong. Or do I detect change?

A third of teachers in a survey on their profession’s TV Channel last week surprisingly voted to give creation and evolution equal status in the classroom.

One is six were science teachers.

I suppose teachers, more than most, know first-hand the damage done by the vast majority telling our kids they’re only a generations away from the law of the jungle.