MetaChat - OMG! A competent piece of science reporting in the mainstream press!

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25 February 2006

OMG! A competent piece of science reporting in the mainstream press! →[More:]... and on a reasonably complex and somewhat emotional topic, too. I'm impressed, go David Baines!

post by: porpoise at: 14:36 | 8 comments

There's something unsettling and bizarre about this pic: ≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by orthogonality 25 February | 14:42

Incredible. Damn long though.

posted by grouse 25 February | 14:43

Don't worry, it's just Don Cherry. Us Canucks are protected from his garish suits through repeated exposure every Saturday.

I'm so writing this David Baines guy to commend him.

grouse - yeah, it's unfortunate that complex issues take more time to explain properly to a lay audience; and this is probably why there's a dearth of good science reporting =(

posted by porpoise 25 February | 14:45

but aren't colds and "acute respiratory" things different?

why didn't they test on regular colds?

posted by amberglow 25 February | 15:28

Exactly, amberglow.

(oh, colds [many different viruses, rhinoviruses are common] and flues [influenza virus] can be classified as acute respiratory things.

But yeah, the testing where ColdFx pulled their advertising numbers from - it's all horseshit [the numbers that is, the testing is "ok"])

posted by porpoise 25 February | 15:59

Nice stuff. Go, Canada!

posted by matildaben 25 February | 16:42

It's hard to express how remarkable this writing is given the source.

posted by drpynchon 25 February | 16:55

Believe-fX: Normalizes gullibility.

posted by kmellis 25 February | 17:44

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