Facebook Causes Cancer…

…and other such claptrap peddled by the media on the possible side-effects of regular use of social networking sites deaftly dealt with by my new hero Ben Goldacre in this nice little Newsnight clip;

Another clip, this time a look at how the media can create a public health scare by not checking their facts properly and chasing headlines (in this case the MMR scare in the UK);

Please check out Ben’s website Badscience.net and his book Bad Science which I’ve been reading voraciously for the past couple of days!