Again, thank you Clare for forwarding this article to me. You have been so helpful, I should just have a news section entitled Clare's Clips.

Science Goes Tabloid In scientific journals, if it bleeds, it leads.
By Iain Murray
February 24, 2005

Brief excerpt:
"Some scientific journals are abandoning scientific neutrality in favor of policy stances and headline-grabbing scare stories, favoring style over substance."

What is interesting is this is happening in major journals like BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, Nature, etc. not some lesser fly by night journal. I guess I didn't realize how the mass media can be the tail that wagged the dog in scientific research. It is unsettling.