Reefer Madness
CNN Headline: Marijuana may increase psychosis risk, analysis says
Buried in the text of the article: The researchers said they couldn’t prove that marijuana use itself increases the risk of psychosis, a category of several disorders with schizophrenia being the most commonly known.
Say what?
Ever heard of self-medication? Maybe the same messed up brain chemicals that cause psychosis respond to pot. A lot of people dope and drink for the obvious reason that it works.
But that wouldn’t have made such an eye-catching headline.
July 29th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
CNN Headline: Headlines may make you dumber.
A report issued by the Blogology School of Journalism claimed that paying too much attention to headlines and not enough to the articles themselves may lower your IQ. The study was unable to prove any intelligence loss, because nobody’s quite sure what IQ is nor could they control for the quality of headlines. However, CNN and Fox headlines produced a statistically significant drop in scores on current affairs and science tests…..
July 29th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
That’s wonderful, A! Thank you! You made my day.