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I meant to post this a few days ago. NBC News aired a report suggesting a link between artificial turf and cancer among soccer players. They found a few goal keepers who have gotten cancer, but at no time did they provide any evidence that the rate of cancer among soccer players is any higher than the national average.
The next night they said they got a couple dozen emails from people who said they know someone who plays soccer and got cancer, as though two dozen people out of millions of soccer players is a statistically significant.
And what about football players? Most college and professional teams play on the same type of surface, and yet there's no sudden increase in cancer among football players. And they spend a lot more time on the ground than soccer players do.
It was on embarrassing display of irresponsible behavior on the part of NBC News.
Steve S
I meant to post this a few days ago. NBC News aired a report suggesting a link between artificial turf and cancer among soccer players. They found a few goal keepers who have gotten cancer, but at no time did they provide any evidence that the rate of cancer among soccer players is any higher than the national average.
The next night they said they got a couple dozen emails from people who said they know someone who plays soccer and got cancer, as though two dozen people out of millions of soccer players is a statistically significant.
And what about football players? Most college and professional teams play on the same type of surface, and yet there's no sudden increase in cancer among football players. And they spend a lot more time on the ground than soccer players do.
It was on embarrassing display of irresponsible behavior on the part of NBC News.
Steve S
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