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Still, it could be worse. You could live in Africa where people are the most pessimistic, according to the BBC, particularly in Nigeria (it must be all that chocolate and junk food they either do or don’t eat).
Though for every cup half empty there is always one half full. So where is the happiest place on earth? Well, that would be Nigeria, according to a report on the BBC.

The Media Blog absolutely rips apart the BBC’s reliance on “scientific” studies to create “news” in this post, highlighting how mutually inconsistent and contradictory stories are presented as “fact” by the BBC News website.

This is great, angry media commentary, in the same vein as Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science and Nick Davies’ Flat Earth News. There are far too many of these nonsensical press releases being presented as news without criticism nowadays.

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I also write about football.

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