Scare Stories: Italy’s Binge Drinking Challenge And An Asteroid Attacks
SCARE Stories: Every day the popular media scours scientific research journals, reports from vested-interest groups and the thoughts of NGO’s and publishes the scare stories as facts. Anorak picks the best:
Towering Block Heads
“Tower blocks ‘potential disaster'” – BBC
The American Satan
U.S. ‘Doesn’t Smell of Sulfur Anymore,’ Says Chavez” – CNN.com
They Couldn’t Get To A Phone
“Halifax-Area Fire Department Gutted in Blaze” – CBC.ca
Death By Shell-Light
“Candle-Lit Proposal Tragic for Turtles” – Charlotte Observer,
Press ‘Hyperspace’
“Asteroid Attack: Putting Earth’s Defences to the Test” – NewScientist.com
A United Europe
Italian binge-drinking set to reach UK levels in FIVE years – Daily Mail
You Got Worries?
Father’s agony as five children may have same heart problem that killed their mother – Daily Mail
Posted: 28th, September 2009 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
