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Bad ScienceБЂUse of the addictive drug by children doubles in a year,БЂ™ said the subheading. Was this true? If you read the press release for the government survey on which the story is based, it reports БЂalmost no change in patterns of drug use, drinking or smoking since 2000БЂ™. But this was a government press release, and journalists are paid to investigate: perhaps the press release was hiding something, to cover up for government failures. The Telegraph also ran the БЂcocaine use doublesБЂ™ story, and so did the Mirror. Did the journalists find the news themselves, buried in the report? You can download the full document online. ItБЂ™s a survey of 9,000 children, aged eleven to fifteen, in 305 schools. The three-page summary said, again, that there was no change in prevalence of drug use. If you look at the full report you will find the raw data tables: when asked whether they had used cocaine in the past year, 1 per cent said yes in 2004, and 2 per cent said yes in 2005. So the newspapers were right: it doubled? No ...» |
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