December 21, 2011
Airbourne cocaine levels cause cancer
That got your attention didn’t it? The article Are You Inhaling Secondhand Coke? certainly got my attention when I read it on Slashdot but more in the kind of “correlation being misinterpreted as causation” way.
To be fair to the scientists in the study, they do actually say this, but the journalist who wrote it up did not find it necessary to include that information until the reader is about three quarters of the way through the article.
Somebody should nominate this for Stat of the Week.