Mintball wrote: <snip> ... the amount of stories about cancer that the Mail prints – 'this gives you cancer', 'that gives you cancer' etc. Dacre claimed it was a tad misleading to suggest they printed lots of such stories, but even a quick search at the paper's own online site produced at least 10 pages of results for cancer stories.
And the way they're reported is such as to make what might be scientifically interesting/worthy research into something sensationalist and out of its wider context: so for instance, the 'working at night will give you cancer'...<snip>
A couple of years ago, I read Ben Goldacre's book
Bad Science which I found very entertaining and readable ... but also enraging when you read about the sort of absolute tosh that masquerades as scientific reporting in publications such as the
Wail.
I recommend it.
The book, that is.
