Category Archives: Fear

Fail and Shameful Scaremongering

June 14, 2010 – 9:45 pm

From the Daily Mail: And another story aimed at scaring pregnant mothers: ‘Babies born at night in hospital ‘have higher risk of dying‘. Now, we looked at absolute risk and relative risk the other day, so this article is using the same scary trick: Pregnant women have been warned their delivery is nearly fifty per [...]

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Hyperbole

June 13, 2010 – 5:19 pm

This story currently on the Mail website caught my eye: ‘Vicious’ attacks and talons being sunk into ‘terrified locals’ sounds pretty disturbing. Then you click on the article and read it and things become rather less dramatic: Horse rider Lindsey Wake had a lucky escape when she fell victim to the hawk-like bird. ‘I was [...]

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Mail’s Recession Crimewave hasn’t happened

January 21, 2010 – 12:17 pm

Throughout most of 2009 the Daily Mail – and James Slack in particular – were either reporting on a crimewave that was already underway or predicting a massive rise of crime due to the recession. Here are just a few headlines: January ‘The credit crunch crimewave: Increase in burglary and robbery is fuelled by economic [...]

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Flat Earth News

January 7, 2010 – 12:35 pm

Well, thanks to some trouble with my old webhosts I have been offline for a while but as you can see, all has been restored and here we are again, trawling the Daily Mail and other newspapers to see what is happening in their worlds today. My better half very kindly bought me a copy [...]

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Government Killing Us With Drugs!

November 22, 2009 – 1:21 pm

The Daily Mail enjoys a good bit of scaremongering and the Swine Flu outbreak has been the perfect opportunity for them to keep trying to scare us with ‘X died from Swine Flu’ headlines that the article then has to admit that serious underlying medical conditions where present in each case. Today is no different, [...]

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