NHS Behind the Headlines calls BS on the Star and Express: "This study cannot be taken as evidence that eating chocolate, and specifically Mars bars, will reduce your risk of bowel cancer, or any other type of cancer, or that it is ‘good for you’."

"By monitoring the signals from 100,000 mobile-phone users … a team from Northeastern University … has worked out some apparently universal laws of human motion." Commenters are not impressed.

Ben Goldacre was on the Today programme this morning to rip into the "man regrows finger with pixie dust" churnalism story that did the rounds this week.

The State of the Media report: if one were to have watched five hours of cable news, one would have seen about … 1 minute and 25 seconds about the environment … 1 minute about science and technology…

Scientific American made conjoined twins out of [Journalism 2.0 and Science 2.0.] last week with its latest experiment in networked journalism: an article about networked science.

Ben Goldacre on blogs and newspaper science journalism: "This transparency and referencing is a huge feature and something blogs share with academia, but not with mainstream media, who could always previously rely simply on their natural authority."

"The proliferation of blogs written by scientists (biology blogs being the most popular, followed by physics and climatology) means that the scientific discourse that used to take place behind lab doors is now open to everyone. "

"So where does the renewed scare about the MMR vaccine come from? This is where the reporting becomes more difficult to assess."

Bee-blogger Turlough looks at the remarkable coverage of colony collapse disorder among the national newspapers.

RSS feed for a service countering cases of dodgy medical journalism.

Ben Goldacre: “many media stories—especially the dramatic and misleading ones—are based on unpublished research, conference presentations, briefings by “mavericks,” or press releases, all of which are tricky primary sources to track down, and whic