Philosophical Sifting
The Daily Mail, as you know, is engaged in a philosophical project of mythic proportions: for many years now it has diligently been sifting through all the inanimate objects in the world, soberly dividing them into the ones which either cause - or cure - cancer. The only tragedy is that one day, amongst the noise, they might genuinely be on to something, and we would simply laugh. That day has come.― A Rather Long Build Up To One Punchline
A classic example of the Mail taking a valid scientific press release (that is a surprise) and twisting it into a scare story for no real reason. I wish I could understand how this works to sell papers, although I guess at the end of the day regurgitating a press release with added anger and Moral Outrage without doing any relevant research is a pretty cheap way of filling column inches.
NP: F♯ A♯ ∞, Godspeed You Black Emperor!
Posted by Dave Clayton at Mon Dec 10 12:05:54 2007:
OMG - I've just realised! The corn-flakes I had this morning will give me shingles, the tea I drank will turn my hair grey, and I'm sitting on a chair made of PVC (which causes arse cancer).
Oh and as for my toothpaste? That contains "white stuff", which (as everyone knows) causes hurricaines off the coast of Fiji when you flush it down the sink....
Gaaah!
Posted by Anonymous at Mon Dec 10 12:32:38 2007:
Oh and as for my toothpaste? That contains "white stuff", which (as everyone knows) causes hurricaines off the coast of Fiji when you flush it down the sink....
Gaaah!
