As every genuine yuppie will tell you ad nauseam, obscure, expensive microbrews are vastly better than Budweiser. Is Falling School of Scientific Statistics, which this week appears to have settled at the government's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases.
Hundreds of newspaper and broadcasting outlets, including The Washington Post, ran stories about the study without questioning its basic premise. But he says the study is a perfect example of how real science is increasingly taking a back seat to the mining and tweaking of statistics to further a political agenda. Maybe we're getting ready to sue Seagram's to cover the cost of treating sexual diseases. Cynthia Glocker, media spokesman for the CDC's sexually transmitted disease division, says radio and television journalists across the country have flooded her office with requests for information and interviews. More than a few appeared to be skeptical of its findings, as, indeed, the CDC's own editors apparently are.