In “The Science You Should Have Heard About This Week” we look at exciting, novel pieces of research that have not been majorly featured by the media – and compare and contrast the with some of the silliest bad science reporting out there. We had quite a few candidates for bad science reporting this week, but nothing could compare to the glorious uselessness of the recent reports that Rioja can prevent breast cancer. As it is mostly the case in the “generic food – prevents – cancer” template of bad science reports, what actually happened is that a research group
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