You have nothing to fear but fear itself (and breast cancer)

So far this week, we’ve had several examples of how not to write about abortion, so now we might as well top the week off with an object lesson in how not to write about breast cancer courtesy of Melanie McFadyean. For anyone diagnosed with cancer, anything but […]

Prostate Cancer and The Pill

Today’s grossly overhyped health scare story comes courtesy of the BMJ’s Open Access journal and, in its original form, sports the following title: “Oral contraceptive use is associated with prostate cancer: an ecological study“. Needless to say, by the time this paper filtered through into the mainstream press […]