Cautionary tales

[dreamer_easy]

Social media, particularly Twitter, is proving brilliant at raising awareness and getting information out when even the fourth estate can't. But it's still the net. Which means that you need just as much salt as ever:

Police warn users as website wrongly lists resident as pedophile

Although of course, the saline requirement is also true of the professional media:

Santa's a Health Menace? Media Everywhere Are Falling for It

Comments

[hnpcc]

Go BMJ Christmas edition!

Now I'm going to have to look up the original article.

[peteyoung.livejournal.com]

I think Grills is back-peddling a bit when he now says it was a spoof. I heard him on BBC Radio 4's Today news programme last week talking quite cogently about it, and it was actually an interesting interview. But he did end his five minutes with "Merry Christmas!", to hint he ain't a killjoy, and this actually took the interviewer by surprise.

[pbristow.livejournal.com]

To me this says, "it was a spoof with a point to make", which is fine.

See also "Shaggy scorpion story" - Like a shaggy dog story, but with a sting in the tale/tail.

(For example: My very own "Whatever Happened To The Bogton Boys?": A shaggy scorpion story in song.)

[hnpcc]

To me this says, "it was a spoof with a point to make", which is fine.

Definitely, and certainly in keeping with the Christmas edition theme. See also Smith and Pell's article: "Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials" - similar(ish) vein, and something I apparently cannot resist linking to at every opportunity. :-)