Well, I did it again: led the Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop (created by science fiction and fantasy author James van Pelt) at a writing conference, this time, Wordbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. Here’s the story I …
It’s time for this year’s Kickstarter to fund Shapers of Worlds Volume V, the fifth in the series of anthologies featuring science fiction and fantasy by authors who were guests on my Aurora Award-winning podcast, The …
It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
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What’s wrong with this headline?
The study does NOT say that Virgins have same rate of sexually transmitted diseases as non-virgins; that’s ridiculous on the face of it. If you haven’t had sex, you’re unlikely to have developed a sexually transmitted disease.
It says kids who pledge abstinence don’t have a lower rate of STDs than kids who do. That says more about the kids’ ability to keep their pledge than the value of abstinence in warding off STDs.
You’d think a Web site that fancies itself the home of “Medical News Today” could do a little better.
UPDATE: Well, what do you know! I e-mailed Medical News Today about the offending headline, and it now reads “So called virgins” instead of just “virgins.”
The newspaper editor I used to be is warmed by this example of a publication willing to correct an error. Way to go!
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2004/03/whats-wrong-with-this-headline/
