In this episode, we examine the Daily Mail's claim that "studies have shown that breast milk lowers the incidence of diarrhoea, influenza and respiratory infections during infancy. It also protects against the later development of allergies, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses". Oh really.

Sources

Daily Mail:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2194613/Another-reason-breast-best.html

Conradi et al., 2012: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.873.8577&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Ragnedda et al., 2015: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kjell-Morten-Myhr/publication/273833373_Reduced_duration_of_breastfeeding_is_associated_with_a_higher_risk_of_multiple_sclerosis_in_both_Italian_and_Norwegian_adult_males_the_EnvIMS_study/links/5562f86808ae8c0cab3345e6/Reduced-duration-of-breastfeeding-is-associated-with-a-higher-risk-of-multiple-sclerosis-in-both-Italian-and-Norwegian-adult-males-the-EnvIMS-study.pdf

In this episode, we examine two seemingly conflicting claims about clowns:

6abc: "Studies have shown that they [clowns] are considered the creepiest profession."

Israel21c: "Studies have shown that Dream Doctors — professional medical clowns in Israel — have a significant positive impact on patients' anxiety, pain and in vitro fertilization treatment effectiveness."

Sources:

6abc: https://6abc.com/philadelphia-school-district-police-department-clown-threat-scary/1536124/

Israel21c: https://www.israel21c.org/study-shows-medical-clowning-may-lower-hospital-expenses/

McAndrew and Koehnke, 2016: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0732118X16300320

Gomberg et al (2020): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1179556520909376

Efrat-Triester et al, 2021: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-020-05987-9

Meiri et al., 2017: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00431-016-2826-3.pdf

In this episode, we examine the Mail Online's claim that "Researchers found that those who ate a daily serving of yogurt lowered their risk of the disease by 20 percent compared to those who did not eat yogurt every day." Oh really.

Sources

Mail Online piece: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-7609489/Eating-yogurt-cup-day-cut-lung-cancer-risks-20-study-suggests.html

Yang et al. (2020): https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/fullarticle/2753175

El-Telbany and Ma (2012): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1947601912465177

Bach et al. 1999: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199910143411606

Penahi et al. 2016 : https://www.nature.com/articles/ejcn2016214

In this episode, we examine TopResume's claim that "Studies have shown that the average recruiter scans a resume for six seconds before deciding if the applicant is a good fit for the role." Oh really.

Sources

TopResume piece

Ladders Inc report

Lahey and Oxley (2021)

In this episode, we examine the Daily Mail's claim that "A study has found that those who did not enjoy the optimum level of seven to eight hours sleep a night were two and a half times more likely to develop a blood sugar abnormality linked to type 2 diabetes." Oh really.

Sources

1. Daily Mail article
2. Shan et al (2015) 
3. Surani et al (2015)
4. Touma and Pannain (2014)

In this episode, we examine Eat This Not That magazine's claim that "According to the Orlando Sentinel, studies have shown that bananas can do more damage to your teeth than chocolate and sugary gum". Oh really.

Sources:

1. Eat This Not That's article
2. Drinkard & Dilley case study, 1982 
3. Touger-Decker and Loveren, 2003 

In this episode, me and Stacey Legendre examine the Mail Online's claim that "Studies have shown that wealthy people live longer, but new research suggests it may be their novel experiences that makes them believe they do." Oh really.

References:

1. Mail online article
2. Tsao et al., 2018

In this episode, we examine the Daily Mail Online's claim that "Studies have also revealed that power ballads can bring a major boost". Oh really.

References:

1. Daily Mail article.
2. Schäfer et al. (2013) 
3. Hsu et al. (2015) 

music: Thomas de Supervener