norwaysaint Posted 12 November, 2011 Share Posted 12 November, 2011 We've probably all been taken in by the first two here, but did anyone seriously ever believe the last two? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15619393 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 13 November, 2011 Share Posted 13 November, 2011 The Daily Mail is the worst for this. It leaps on one say sentence in the abstract or conclusion and extrapolates it into a whole article presented as fact to scare its readers. If you actually go and read the paper that they are basing the story on, it usually says something very different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
norwaysaint Posted 13 November, 2011 Author Share Posted 13 November, 2011 Hmm, my wife is a scientist and from what she's told me, there's a lot of bad or stupid practice going on there too. For example, researchers in influenza vaccines (her field) are currently celebrating manipulating bird flu and mutating it so that ferrets can catch it from each other. This is seen as a great breakthrough because ferrets are the "gold standard" in testing as they are far closer to humans genetically than the other test animals that can be used, so they can have more efficient tests. The main fear with bird and swine flu has always been the chance that it could mutate into a form that we can catch from each other. So they've actually helped it on a step of that journey as part of their research. Brilliant. She's getting out of that field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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