Falsely exaggerating risks scares people off things

[Ripshod]

Researchers from UCSF (where else?) exposed non-smokers to different types of warnings on smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes to see if their perceptions of risk changed. Funnily enough they did – especially when e-cigarette users were shown graphic warnings suggesting that e-cigarettes cause mouth cancer

www.clivebates.com/?p=2418

[toots]

Only read the first part so far, but that is utterly ridiculous. Talk about misleading, when will they ever stop this idiocy

This also reminds me of all those possible "side effects" you now get inside a packet of medicinal tablets. Years ago I used to read the possible "side-effects" because they meant something, now every single tablet has the same god knows how many possible "side-effects" so you don't know which ones are true or false so what's the point in even reading them.

[Montana]

The opening line from Clive Bates is an absolute classic - "A promising contender has emerged for the coveted Worst Published Paper of All Time award… "

I'd like to call it "Do you think we were all born yesterday award"


Andy

[Ripshod]

I just love it when Clive releases stuff like this. Shows people to be exactly what they are!!

[toots]

Yeah, shows them up, he certainly does that.

I must have missed this one, don't normally miss Clive Bates' work & responses to stuff but I rather like this as well:

www.clivebates.com/?p=2335#more-2335

Linky for anyone else that might have missed it.

[gill2009]

 I think I might just be a little in love with Clivey 

[Ripshod]

Sept 26, 2014 13:50:51 GMT gill2009 said:

 I think I might just be a little in love with Clivey 

And there I was thinking Rosco had your eye 

[robby]

The trouble is that writers of all this misinformation are killing people all round the world, do they realise that?

[gill2009]

Sept 26, 2014 13:53:31 GMT Ripshod said:

Sept 26, 2014 13:50:51 GMT gill2009 said:

 I think I might just be a little in love with Clivey 

And there I was thinking Rosco had your eye 

 More than me eye 

[toots]

Sept 26, 2014 13:54:22 GMT robby said:

The trouble is that writers of all this misinformation are killing people all round the world, do they realise that?

Course they realise it robby, all they're interested in is the MONEY they're LOSING icon_shoppingm