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[Mince]

Quite frankly, anything scientific is likely to be wrong or at least misleading. It's about equivalent to learning from reading comics.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

I'm not having that. I work for The Sun. 

[Roger Kettle]

...and I'm much further up the intellectual scale at The Star. Ahem.
I suspect Mincie is upset about a study that questions some of the benefits of the recent diet he has embraced.

[Mince]

Well, it's mostly the Mail Online, and how they write each unsensational article in the most sensational way, often omitting pertinent facts to achieve this, such as asteroids on a collision course with Earth, where collision is redefined as millions of miles away. And then there's the article detailing the recent meta-study about low salt intake being bad for you, even though the meta-study makes inferences about relationships using data from smaller studies that were not designed to assess these relationships. The study was called into question ages ago as garbage-in, garbage-out, and yet the article makes no mention of this. And if I can find the information in less than a minute, why can't the so-called scientific experts who write the article?

[Roger Kettle]

Because scientists tend to be dogmatic and cherry-pick the views that coincide with their own.

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

Ah, the Mail!

[Sandy Buttcheeks]

Quite frankly, anything scientific is likely to be wrong or at least misleading. It's about equivalent to learning from reading comics.

Wots rong wiv lerning from comics?

[Tarquin Thunderthighs lll]

 

True story - the last time I remember my spelling and punctuation being corrected was when I was 18, by the editor of The Beano, having red-pencilled a couple of elementary mistakes in my very first attempt at writing a comic script. The script was passed unchanged, other than those 'schoolboy errors', and I never made the same mistake again, and still try not to to this day. I can't say that all comics were the same, but most, if not all of the DC Thomson comic stable back then took these things very seriously indeed, and I have heard that in a number of countries around the world, these very comics have been used to help teach English to children...and adults.

Can't necessarily say the same about our newspapers alas. Especially these days.

[Mince]

For many articles I read the title and then skip to the comments at the bottom, since they tend to be written by more intelligent people.