BPSDBPosted by soveda on October 7, 2008
Before I start I have to thank jdc, Ben Goldacre’s mini blog on the Badscience.net site and Cynical OT from the Bad Science forum for pointing this article out to me.
I’m starting to think I should add “bad media” to my byline…
The link in the mini blog is to the ITV news report on a study examining the cortisol response of the body to stress in adolescent males with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (F91.3). The report has been described as flaky, Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by soveda on October 3, 2008
I did it again, this was going to be a follow up post about the mental health act but instead here I am ranting about the BBC’s coverage of a health story.
The story in question is: Sick leave link to “early death”.
Why am I picking on this? (the inverted commas are in their title BTW)
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