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  • October16th

    “9/11 Rescue Workers’ Cancer Link Probed”

    Posted in: Air

    Headline Scariness: 2

    They use the C word, but not too alarmist otherwise.

    Actual Danger: 3

    No good deed goes unpunished, apparently.  Folks try to help out and end up breathing in toxic dust and who knows what other crap at the ground zero site. Not a danger unless you were at ground zero cleaning up, but could be bad news for those folks.

    [ CBSNews.com ]

  • October15th

    “…stop eating bacon, cancer report declares”

    Posted in: Food

    Headline Scariness: 5

    Oh. My. God.

    Bacon causes cancer!!!

    Actual Danger: 1

    Well, actually, the article says that if you don’t exercise, and eat a ton of meat, you increase your cancer risk. But hinting at a link between bacon (the big “B”) and cancer (the big “C”) makes for a much better headline.

    [ Guardian.co.uk ]