Why Scientists Shun the Media

I picked this up from Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog:

Coffee gives your children cancer, doctors didn’t say today after not carrying out exhaustive research into the link that doesn’t exist between caffeine and babies.

Read the full article; it’s a deliciously spot-on parody of mass media’s approach to science. Unfortunately, it’s also based on a real newspaper article

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