As a freelance health journalist, I cruise the digital headlines looking for story ideas about health news and medical innovations on a regular basis. Here’s one strange health headline that grabbed my attention last week – “Fizzy Drinks May Make Teens Explode.”

 

At least the researchers were kind enough to point out that the association could be due to other factors that weren’t accounted for in the study and that a direct cause-and-effect relationship could not be proven. Yes! The survey’s major limitation was relying on self-reported data by the teens. Yes, again!

Bottom line: I suspect there is a group of teenagers in Boston somewhere having a good laugh about how they were able to skew this study’s results.