Does Facebook rot your brain? Obviously not, but...
Last week the ever-reliable Daily Mail ran possibly its most absurd headline ever: How using Facebook could raise your risk of cancer. The Wail, which it pains me to say is the second-most-read newspaper in the UK, has a venerable history of claiming that every substance and circumstance in existence can either raise or lower the risk of cancer - sometimes both, depending on which article you read - but this attack on social networking ("could"-count 4; "may"-count 2) was a new low.
