Great Bad Science column in the Guardian this weekend: http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/home- ... ill-music/

Very interesting reading. Also, a lot of it as applicable accross a variety of issues at the moment.

Good article.

There is so much such nonsense reporting around these days it is really annoying. And I'm not all that well educated really but the number of times I sit up reading something saying 'really?!' then with easy work find my suspicion of dodgy statements/figures is/probably is true is really quite staggering. Lazy research and lazy reporting adding up to nonsense.

Richard.

Any word on whether video did, in fact, kill the radio star?

I got an odd look from my house mate as he passed my open door and saw me chuckling at my screen

I would never justify piracy, and I think it is harming some industries like PC gaming, but I find some of the figures to be nonsense. A single download does not mean a single sale lost. Take Photoshop for example. If a teen downloads it to mess around with their pictures before uploading them on MyFaceSpaceBook for some notion it has 'cool' effects then that's not a lost sale. The person in question was never going to pop down to PC World and spend £600 of saved up pocket money on professional editing software.