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The Daily Wail never lets facts get in the way of a good
scare story. Their audience is middle-aged women with too
much time on their hand - the so-called "worried well"

Typical article (described by Ben Goldacre, IIRC) was about
a dangerous chemical in food, saying they should ban it.
They /had/ banned it, 5 years earlier!

Which reminds me of a story I heard recently at Moriarty. Our pattern entry
point is over the water tower at a trailer park south of the airport. One
day an elderly lady who lives there contacted the airport manager to
complain about all those airplanes that turn off their engines over the
trailerpark (glider releases on a pattern tow and tug throttles back) on
their way to the airport.