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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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A general rule of thumb is that the conclusions published by newspapers (which are all sensationalist headlines now with little real journalism) are always going to vastly overstate or even mis-state or oversimply the findings of a single scientific study. These come out every week and its always like this. It's usually some young writer (won't even say journalist) working on contract reading all the latest scientific journal reports and eyeballing what makes for good headlines and then writing about something they don't know anything about.
The only value I find in these, is that they draw attention to what could otherwise be obscure studies and they draw out discussion.