sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: >> There's nothing surprisingly >> egregious about this particular article, is there? >> > > Yes. I've never seen a university press release, which should > have been vetted by the authors and presumably ran with their > approval, hide the fact that the research was in animals. >
I'm still surprised. Without actually going back a checking press releases, I can recall the case of the "moderate drinking causes breast cancer" announcement in Britain earlier this year, in which it seemed pretty clear that the scientists had sexed it up for the university press team, who had then re-sexed it up for the new media, who had then re-re-sexed it up for public (when in fact the actual increase in the breast cancer rate was something like 2 in 10,000, and there was little reason to believe that alcohol, rather than the billion or so things correlated with increased alcohol consumption, was responsible even for this tiny increase). Sorry to be so blase about the whole thing, but far from being unusual, it is endemic Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
