Reading science news on national newspapers is a very different experience from reading science news as a scientist looking at scientific journals. Every week, we read about flashy headlines about science that is not (or at least not yet) up to scratch but that sounds interesting or familiar to the general reader. There are countless examples of this, from tomatoes being the cure for cancer, curry preventing malignancy and, last week, purple potatoes being the cure for colorectal cancer (a tomato and purple potato salad sounds good right about now). As a scientist, the depressing thing is that while we
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