www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... years.html So what do you reckon: Pile of tosh? The Russians going to plant stuff they captured at the end of WW2? Straightforward truth?

www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... years.html So what do you reckon: Pile of tosh? The Russians going to plant stuff they captured at the end of WW2? Straightforward truth?

Pile of tosh.

Errors in the article (unsurprisingly given the source) take away any credibility it may have had.

Those two words and the Daily Mail don't mix. They've printed another apology last Friday over misleading headlines.

[iDaily Mail ... National Enquirer[/i ... what's the difference?

I did wonder what happened to all those journos once the Sport closed down

Sounds totally plausible to me! Just like the holocaust never happened, Elvis works down my local chippie and I have a 14 inch cock when limp.

To me, one third of the above is true, he served me Spam fritter and chips the other day

Hedon chippie?

At first they say "a Nazi stronghold". Then it's claimed a bunch of sub-mariners hollowed out an "ice cave". My money is on a Blue Peter time capsule - or nothing at all.

It was quite amusing listening to Leveson coverage on Monday, when Paul Dacre was appearing. Robert Jay QC raised the question of the amount of stories about cancer that the [iMail[/i prints – 'this gives you cancer', 'that gives you cancer' etc. Dacre claimed it was a tad misleading to suggest they printed lots of such stories, but even a quick search at the paper's own online site produced at least 10 pages of results for cancer stories.

And the way they're reported is such as to make what might be scientifically interesting/worthy research into something sensationalist and out of its wider context: so for instance, the 'working at night will give you cancer'. I was writing a piece on Breast Cancer Awareness at the time, and talking to charities involved for that. Such reporting they consider to be utterly irresponsible and counterproductive: they often see a downturn in enquiries after such stories appear because an approach apparently based on 'life can give you cancer' simply makes people feel fatalistic and less inclined to think about any sensible avoidance matters or even contact relevant organisations.

And of course, there was the very recent 'switching the light on for even seconds at night when you go to the toilet can give you cancer' tale, which Jay specifically raised in his examination.

That produced a response from Dacre, reading from prepared documents – in this case, what he claimed to be the original press release. Unfortunately, that claim was trashed online shortly after, by people linking to what was described as the proper press release.

I was going to say: 'you couldn't make it up', but in the case of the [iMail[/i,on science/medical stories (as on so many other things), they frequently do.

A couple of years ago, I read Ben Goldacre's book [iBad Science[/i which I found very entertaining and readable ... but also enraging when you read about the sort of absolute tosh that masquerades as scientific reporting in publications such as the [iWail[/i.

I recommend it.
The book, that is.

How the hell do you hollow out an underwater ice cave big enough to park a submarine in the antarctic with just the tools that you've brought with you on the submarine ?

Did anyone at The Mail read this story back to themselves before it went to print ?