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Posted: 18 August 2001 at 00:33
Tags: alcohol; bbc; health; journalism

Reasons to be cheerful: The BBC report on the fact that memory loss starts in your twenties. Why does this make me cheerful? Erm, what was the question again?

I don’t take this particularly seriously, as I’ve come to take the BBC’s health coverage with a pinch of salt. At times, it would appear that they just can’t find enough news to fill their health section, so simply recycle some old news of dubious reliability. Their all-time favorite is the groundbreaking story about how alcohol is actually good for you. They like this story so much that they’ve run it again and again and again and again.

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