Bad science - why oh why!

[Northerner]

Reported in news earlier today:

Raise a glass to the 'red wine pill' to cure everything from obesity to cancer
In terms of medical achievements, this has got to be the big one ? an all-in-one treatment that works against obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Astoundingly, a drug capable of doing just that could be available within three years. The excitement surrounds a family of drugs based on resveratrol, the ?miracle ingredient? in red wine credited with inhibiting the development of cancer and heart disease.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...ll-cure-obesity-cancer.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

(three years...right...🙄)

and the truth behind the headlines in NHS Choices:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2011/08August/Pages/resveratrol-red-wine-tablet-weight-loss.aspx

There really ought to be some sort of code of minimum standards applied to journalism like this. We do it for advertising claims, why not stupid misreporting too? 🙄

 

[Robster65]

If there were a minimum standard, the DM would still manage to drop below it.

It would be better if they just sold a sheaf of blank pages. At least people would be better informed. 🙄

Rob