There was a study that came out last month that the media touted as proving that high heels, and shoes, don't cause bunions. It's really just genetics.
The study did no such thing. I took at much closer look at it, and the media coverage, in a blog entry.
Or at least that’s the title of this article at that wretched hive of misinformation, the Huffington Post. I’ve written before about Huffpo HuffPoo and More HuffPo HuffPoo: The Annual Flip-Flop Warning.
But this time they’ve outdone themselves.
What they’ve done is show themselves to be totally incapable of reading a (fairly simple) scientific paper. But to be fair (kind of), they obviously didn’t read the scientific paper. All they did was look at somebody else’s article—somebody else who also didn’t read the scientific paper.
Keep reading at http://ahcuah.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/zomg-high-heels-dont-cause-bunions-new-study-reveals/
The study did no such thing. I took at much closer look at it, and the media coverage, in a blog entry.
ZOMG! High Heels Don’t Cause Bunions, New Study Reveals
by Ahcuah
Or at least that’s the title of this article at that wretched hive of misinformation, the Huffington Post. I’ve written before about Huffpo HuffPoo and More HuffPo HuffPoo: The Annual Flip-Flop Warning.
But this time they’ve outdone themselves.
What they’ve done is show themselves to be totally incapable of reading a (fairly simple) scientific paper. But to be fair (kind of), they obviously didn’t read the scientific paper. All they did was look at somebody else’s article—somebody else who also didn’t read the scientific paper.
Keep reading at http://ahcuah.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/zomg-high-heels-dont-cause-bunions-new-study-reveals/