If the Daily Wail told me it was raining, I'd still go and check! I've seen so many articles in that publication that are complete rubbish, like the one that said hair dye causes bladder cancer. Complete rubbish, I went and read the study they quoted and the study found a 0.03% increase in likelyhood hood of bladder cancer in hairdressers, it gave no causes and 0.03% is statistically insignificant.
I also remember customers coming into the wholefood shop where I worked asking for Chinse herbs that nobody had ever heard of, they came to us because the CHinese medicine shop in town hadn't heard of them either. According to them, all good wholefood shops would sell this mystery herb, we had quite a few people get angry at us for not knowing anything about it.
Science coverage in national press is terrible, most of the journalists have no science background and yet write about these incredibly complex issues as if they're simple.
If the Daily Wail told me it was raining, I'd still go and check! I've seen so many articles in that publication that are complete rubbish, like the one that said hair dye causes bladder cancer. Complete rubbish, I went and read the study they quoted and the study found a 0.03% increase in likelyhood hood of bladder cancer in hairdressers, it gave no causes and 0.03% is statistically insignificant.
I also remember customers coming into the wholefood shop where I worked asking for Chinse herbs that nobody had ever heard of, they came to us because the CHinese medicine shop in town hadn't heard of them either. According to them, all good wholefood shops would sell this mystery herb, we had quite a few people get angry at us for not knowing anything about it.
Science coverage in national press is terrible, most of the journalists have no science background and yet write about these incredibly complex issues as if they're simple.
Indeed, ‘The Wail’ has often printed material of dubious sources and has a habit of sensationalising headlines of occurrences that shouldn’t be newsworthy. The link wanted me to allow all cookies to read the study, but I don’t like agreeing to all cookies on any website.
The article might be referring to a study by Prof Takumi at Kobe University, Japan which was published on 11th June. If it isn’t the same study, it might still be of interest to some people.
