science reporting

Colby Cosh points out the asterisk on the latest headline about climate change

A detection kit for the most common date rape drugs is going on sale throughout Canada shortly, according to the Montreal Gazette. The Gazette did not have to look far to find someone to denounce the ethical premise of such apparatuses: a spokesman for a Vancouver women’s shelter said “This is a cynical attempt to make some money and shame on the company for feeding off the fear that women, reasonably, have of being raped.”

Colby Cosh on how a study linking abortion and depression was grossly misinterpreted