My regular readers (both of them) have noticed that I spend almost as much time writing about new studies you should ignore as about new studies you should pay attention to.  That's because the media is driven by hype, not by sober science, and there's no incentive for an editor to get rid of a story just because the study is misleading or meaningless.  (I'm not complaining.  That's a consequence of having a free press, and it's muc...