Researching into possibly discussions on the outrageous list published by the daily mail, I came across a a Blog post from The Guardian funnily enough. It would seem that the Daily Mail like to use eye catching fabrication from their headlines to draw readers attention. And then in fact the articles aren’t what the label is on the tin. Is that allowed? It’s interesting to read other opinions and get to know the characteristics of the Daily Mail.

Yet more proof that the Daily Mail gives you cancer

Fearless health watchdog, the Daily Mail, published a news item a couple of weeks ago headlined Cancer danger of that night-time trip to the toilet.

Intro: “Simply turning on a light at night for a few seconds to go to the toilet can cause changes that might lead to cancer, scientists claim.”

It was, of course, bunkum. The Tabloid Watch blog links to straightforward and crushing denials by the said scientists, Professor Charalambos Kyriacou from Leicester University’s department of genetics and Dr Rachel Ben-Shlomo from the University of Haifa.

Their research, on mice by the way, was all about the likely effects of the prolonged exposure of nightshift workers to artificial light. There is nothing in their study about trips to the toilet.

As Kyriacou told AOL Health: “The ‘switching on of lights causes cancer when you go to the bathroom at night’ is an eye-catching fabrication of the press.”

For a run-down of other things that the Mail has alleged are causes of cancer see this Facebook list. It includes sausages, tea, potatoes, hugging (I kid you not) and there are 135 more examples too.

Sources: Tabloid Watch/Leicester University/Facebook/AOL Health