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To: Windsock who wrote (135127)3/29/2001 8:12:50 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 1571053
 
Newspapers are notorious for distorting health and science issues. They focus on sensational details for entertainment value. They have to compete for attention with the nightly news with inflammatory video and breathless on-site reporters -- details at 11:00.

Windsock, the refrences where to a USC study and to The Journal of Urology 1999;161:460-462. One link was to USC not a news paper. Even the MSNBC article wasn't sensationalized. Also Scumbria's own post contained mentions of skeptical peer reviewd articles. What does this have to do with "sensational details for entertainment value". IT would seem to me that a supposed 50% reduction in sperm counts was far more sensational and likly to draw attention.

Tim