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Post by flatandy on Jan 26, 2009 16:35:39 GMT
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Post by policecar on Jan 26, 2009 16:38:07 GMT
Starbucks Illegal Immigrant Workers Gave Diana Colon Cancer
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Post by flatandy on Jan 26, 2009 16:42:56 GMT
I don't think I've mentioned it on the new site yet, so, if you want to learn how to read the very clever subtext of articles like that, you should read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre.
The subtext, by the way, is this:
Daily Mail editors and bosses are complete retards
They think everyone else is as stupid as them
If we scare enough people enough of the time, we'll be able to control the minds of the masses
That article is almost certainly planted by some agency working for a pharma company or a soft drinks company or someone who is trying to work on an anti-cancer treatment or with caffeine free beverages
If you read the article you'll realise there's no evidence for any of this at all - and even if the study is proved right, that embryonic DNA is damaged by caffeine, there's actually rarely any evidence that this will follow through to any condition once the child is born.
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Post by omnipleasant on Jan 26, 2009 17:00:29 GMT
That. Is f*cking shocking.
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2009 17:12:48 GMT
Why do we let these left wing papers get away with this? Although I'm more disappointed in "Dr" Marcus Cooke "PhD". The whole thing sounds a bit shoddy.
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Post by omnipleasant on Jan 26, 2009 17:15:20 GMT
"Researcher Dr Marcus Cooke said there was a ‘good likelihood’ the study would make a connection."
Um..
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Post by tarrant on Jan 26, 2009 17:16:28 GMT
Why do we let these left wing papers get away with this? . The Daily Mail!!!  |
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2009 17:18:18 GMT
By the way Andy, my favourite bit from Bad Science is the Gillian McKeith chapter where he starts off "Gillian McKeith (or Gillian McKeith to give her full medical title)..."
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Post by flatandy on Jan 26, 2009 17:18:35 GMT
A good likelihood that an epidemiological study over something with huge amounts of background noise would make a connection? Hmmmmmm.
Even if that were true, the headline "New Evidence That Starbucks Kills Unborn Babies" is a little wrong.
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Post by omnipleasant on Jan 26, 2009 17:19:15 GMT
Isn't your doctorate in Homeopathy, Mids...?
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2009 17:20:16 GMT
The Mail exhibits all the symptoms of leftyism. Hysteria, racism, poor understanding of science etc. The very definition of left wingery, in fact. The editor is also known to be a big supporter of left winger-in-chief, Dr Gordon Brown PhD.
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2009 17:21:12 GMT
Isn't your doctorate in Homeopathy, Mids...? homo-opathy? oooerr!!! |
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Post by flatandy on Jan 26, 2009 17:22:48 GMT
Dr Mids, PhD?
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2009 17:23:52 GMT
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Post by lawrence on Jan 26, 2009 21:03:16 GMT
Bad science !? I can't be arsed to read the article...It is about the myth of global warming , right ?
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Post by Woolf on Jan 26, 2009 21:11:40 GMT
An interesting study would be:
The correlation between tabloid 'newspapers' and blood pressure.
Whenever I read the cr@p that they publish, I can feel mine rising to volcanic levels.
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Post by Libby on Jan 26, 2009 21:21:11 GMT
An interesting study would be: The correlation between tabloid 'newspapers' and blood pressure. Whenever I read the cr@p that they publish, I can feel mine rising to volcanic levels. lol! ;D |
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Post by flatandy on Jan 27, 2009 8:47:50 GMT
Bad science !? I can't be arsed to read the article...It is about the myth of global warming , right ? The funny thing is that, even though it's a really, really easy target, the book doesn't even start on the bad science of climate change denial (or, also, the creationist types). It sticks to much less controversial stuff like the homopaths and pharma companies and the people who say things like "coffee kills babies". |
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Post by lala on Jan 27, 2009 9:02:04 GMT
"Researcher Dr Marcus Cooke said there was a ‘good likelihood’ the study would make[/i] a connection. Previous research[/i] has shown that caffeine damages DNA, cutting cells’ ability to fight off cancer triggers such as radiation."
So no 'New evidence', inspite of what the title promised us.
Daily Mail being crap? Say it isn't so!
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Post by VikingHumpingWitch on Jan 27, 2009 9:19:02 GMT
I bought this book for my dad on your recco, Andy.
I was talking to a pregnant the other day about alcohol, I said I'd read in the English press that you can get almost a bit pissed once a week and it won't do your sprog any harm, she said that it's the same as giving spirit to a baby and babies can DIE from a teaspoon of spirit. Who's right?
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