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Originally Posted by Osem
Don't fret. We won't be complaining but we might remind you how much worse off we'd have been inside the EU when it finally implodes.
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Although that prospect does seem less likely than it did even a year ago.
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Originally Posted by pip08456
Care to explain this then?
So much for experts!
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Part of the problem with science stories in the press is they report findings of individual studies as if they're breakthroughs. There have been plenty of health stories ("Red Wine is good for you!") that are based on shaky or incomplete research that get overpromoted by a excitable press - also see every 'miracle' cancer cure - and then later found to be baseless leading to sneering from those very papers which promoted it in the first place.
But still they go on and because of these experts we know about the risk of smoking, we have dramatically reduced cancer rates and even wiped out diseases. It just takes time, false starts and very smart people.