Glad to see a new approach to this research...

[moominmuppet]

Sewage as a Measure of Society's Drug Use -- regardless of one's beliefs about the roles of drugs in society, we can better discuss and debate the issues when we're working from accurate information, and as it mentioned in the article, our previous methods for collecting such data pretty much suck donkey balls (ok, maybe that wasn't their exact

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[zeldajean]

Last night my youngest sister (she's 13 now) told Mom and I, in her "can you believe the crap those talking heads say" voice, "Did you know that scientific research shows a link betwen having tattoos and drugs & sex?!" We all laughed, and agreed that the right study could show that 'scientific research shows a link between wearing glasses and drugs & sex' or 'lack of tattoos shows a link to drugs & sex'.

Glad to see she's on board with the "just because they say so does't make it true" camp :)

[moominmuppet]

Between lousy science reporting, soundbites, and overall confusion of correlation with causation, most science-related headlines these days just make me wince...