Two Words That Don’t Go Together – “Medical” And “Journalism”

nomorefakenews.com March 6 2013

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Bad headline

Yesterday, I was scanning through medicalnewstoday.com, catching up on the wacky and highly dangerous world of medicine.

What caught my attention were the story headlines themselves. In the news biz, everything depends on those headlines and what they mean, imply, suggest. They’re magnets.

So take a trip with me through one day of the magnetic field.

First, let’s get a few OOPS headlines out of the way:

  • “Common Cancer Vaccine Ingredient Diverts T-cells From Tumors”
  • Shelf Life of Blood Nearer 3 Than 6 Weeks”
  • “One-Third of Doctors Miss Electronic Test Results”

These headlines should be rewritten and blasted across the front pages of newspapers and jammed into the top spots on the evening television news. But no. They aren’t. They might disturb the sleeping masses.

  • Gigantic Cancer Vaccine Screw-Up
  • Are You Sure You Want To Get A Blood Transfusion?
  • Doctors Asleep At The Wheel…Again

The common cancer vaccine ingredient referred to in the first headline is mineral oil. It’s used in experimental cancer vaccines being tested on animals. Seems the T-cells in the body, stimulated by the vaccine, fail to attack the cancer tumors. Instead, they attack the injection site. Where the vaccine was jabbed. Oops.

The T-cells are attacking the mineral oil!

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