Does anyone buy 'Private Eye' magazine

[annbaker]

I do = never miss

[Nagel]

Yes, it often breaks news stories ahead of the pack.

 

It sometimes breaks news stories several years ahead of the pack. In terms of real content it ****s on the daily newspapers.

[mediumfast]

I read it about 10 years ago in Woodseats Medical Centre and haven't failed to read a copy since.

[Phanerothyme]

The funnies have grown steadily unfunnier over the years, but that could me. I can't read the rest of it anymore because it's just too depressing.

 

Mostly it's bang on, but a bit scientifically illiterate in my opinion. As M.D wrote, with good grace:

Private Eye got it wrong in its coverage of MMR. It gave undue prominence to unproven theories based on a small number of uncontrolled observations, and paid far less attention to the weight of evidence from large comparative studies that failed to find any association between MMR and autism.

 

Few other journals will print such retrospective admissions.

[L00b]

Gotten to appreciate it over the years, as the Brit equivalent to the French Le Canard Enchaîné, which I have been reading for 30+ years (a 'good-bad' habit inherited from my Grandad). The Canard's Wiki actually cross-references Private Eye for 'insider' language and in-jokes

Edited June 8, 2015 by L00b

[InigoMontoya]

The funnies have grown steadily unfunnier over the years, but that could me. I can't read the rest of it anymore because it's just too depressing.

 

Mostly it's bang on, but a bit scientifically illiterate in my opinion. As M.D wrote, with good grace:

 

 

Few other journals will print such retrospective admissions.

 

 

Hislop never actually said "Sorry" though, did he?

 

(I remember buying that special, and, with no medical background, or in the ability to "peer review" evidence, I thought what was presented was tenuous at best)