Cancer Fearmongering in The Daily Mail
There are plenty of inconsistent, inaccurate, and even irresponsibly written medical stories out there in the media and unfortunately the stories are often framed in a way that misrepresent the science in order to produce a sensational headline. I can think of few publications that do that as much at The Daily Mail. How bad is it? To put it in perspective, let’s take a look at just the cancer headlines featured in The Daily Mail. They have been compiled on an interesting website called Kill or Cure?. The site features an exhaustive review of the perplexing information that readers have to navigate in order to make any sense of current cancer science. The site contains 19 entries for aspirin alone with conflicting information it both causes and cures cancer. Not to say that science doesn’t change or produce conflicting results. The problem is that for the Daily Mail, the headline is the first priority, not informing the reader.