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…from my last post, here’s a video of Ben Goldacre on Newsnight doing a fine job of questioning the ‘scientist’ that wrote the ‘paper’ about social networking and it’s affects on health…

And here’s a fantastic article from the aforementioned Mr Goldacre.

Is it me, or is it very disheartening to hear the Director of the Royal Institution (for so long a bastion of reason and scientific endeavour) using the phrase “There is no evidence…” If there’s no evidence do you not think it might be best to stay quiet instead of shouting from the rooftops?

And for Dr Sigman to state that his ‘paper’, entitled “Well connected? The biological implications of social networking”, was “not about social networking” was just the icing on the cake really.

Having said all that, Goldacre and Paxman do a good job of pouring scorn on the whole thing.

Now if only that happened more often. One things for certain, if it did happen more often the Daily Mail and Express would be a lot thinner!

They’ve really outdone themselves this time!

Facebook causes cancer

It’s almost too good to be true.  I had to double check that I’d not been tricked into visiting a spoof site.  The only thing that’s missing is a link to falling house prices.

It’s disappeared from BBC Interactive and iPlayer now, so if you didn’t see it you’re too late.

But, because I’m kind to you, here are a couple of videos to show you what you missed out on…

If you missed it I urge you strongly to seek it out somewhere.  It’s awesome stuff.