“Health warning: exercise makes you
“Social websites harm children’s
“Jab as deadly as the cancer”
“Women who dress provocatively more
likely to be raped”
If you’re anything like me (and since
you’re reading a science magazine I’m going to assume that you
are at least a bit of a science nerd), then these are the sort of
attention-grabbing and woefully inaccurate headlines that make you
audibly grind your teeth every time you see them. Unfortunately,
they are by no means rare. The above are just a drop in the ocean of
misleading headlines and downright dodgy science stories that were
forced upon the masses last year. Who writes these things, and why?
It’s painfully obvious to the informed observer that these stories
are rubbish, yet they persist.
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