Daily Mail Oncology Project

In another thread I was reminded of the Daily Mail Oncology list

A number of Newspapers are great lovers of the  "x cures/causes cancer" story format and partly as a joke someone set up a project on line listing all the things that according to the Mail a) cure cancer, b) give you cancer,  hilariously some things are in both lists.

thedailymailoncologicalontologyproject.wordpress.com/

Sadly this turned out to be a much greater undertaking than the originator had expected, this is one of the last posts:

S**t. What have I taken on? They do actually run a cancer story every day. We have our 1st cancer cure of the new year. Laugh your way to health, “happy women may be at lower risk of problems such as heart disease, cancer, high blood pressure and obesity.” But not if you are a man, 

Anyway he had to bow out but the torch was picked up and others are continuing it here:

dailymailoncology.tumblr.com/

!n the latter list a particular favorite is "Kangaroo cream could prevent skin cancer" - I hope that doesn't rebound on them!

Sorry - I'll get my coat!