So why do these perpetual losers continue to hand out the same common wisdom that's provably wrong?

Because they're perpetual losers?

Troy said he invented this perpetual loser so that he wouldn't have to feel bad about reporting someone's defeat.

But at lottery time, superstition prevails and he sticks with the same number - albeit a perpetual loser - for very sound reasons.

Jimmy was also a small-time criminal, a perpetual loser, and eventually went to prison for good, where he died.

We too were a ragtag collection of perpetual losers.

It has taken over a corner that has been a perpetual loser, housing a half-dozen restaurants, all of which have failed.

Nurses are bad about hooking up with perpetual losers, for instance.

After decades in which control of most state legislatures was solidly in the hands of one party or the other, perpetual losers have turned the tables.

Played by Dan Domingues with the edgy, hangdog mien of a perpetual loser, John has something big on his mind.