Worst Science Article of the Week

A few weeks ago I DiscoBlogged about a thoroughly dumb Mayo Clinic press release and BBC news article on a "vertical workstation"—a standard treadmill Elmer's-ed to an office desk for giants—that was supposed to help pudgy people lose weight as they worked. Since then I've found myself thinking that there must be a lot of lazy, inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise just bad science reporting out there, and DiscoBlog could do a great service to its readers by pointing out those articles that should be taken with not a grain of salt but an entire Salar de Uyuni. I forgot about that idea until hitting this AP article about how some parts of the world will be helped by global warming. Reading it convinced me that DiscoBlog should, nay, must take on this task of defending the world from crimes against science journalism. I hereby begin that mission by naming it ...