http://www.ted.com Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they're right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence...
========== So I'm a doctor, but I kind of slipped
sideways into research,and now I'm an epidemiologist.And nobody really knows
what epidemiology is.Epidemiology is the science
of how we know in the real worldif something is good
for you or bad for you.And it's best understood through exampleas the science of those crazy,
wacky newspaper headlines.And these are just some of the examples.These are from the Daily Mail.Every country in the world
has a newspaper like this.It has this bizarre,
ongoing philosophical projectof dividing all the inanimate
objects in the worldinto the ones that either cause
or prevent cancer.Here are some of the things
they said cause cancer:divorce, Wi-Fi, toiletries and coffee.Some things they say prevent cancer:crusts, red pep...
