I’m finding it very hard to understand why this story appears on the BBC News website. It’s about a 15 year-old Welsh girl who appeared to have some form of chronic fatigue-like syndrome; the article claims that it was due to her dental braces, which “played havoc with the teenager’s immune system by effectively blocking passages which allow vital fluid to circulate around her brain and body.” Yep, I shit you not— the braces blocked passages which allow vital fluid to circulate around her brain and body. Huh? (Clue #1, by the way: not a single quote from an actual medical source.)

I have always thought of the BBC as a pretty damn respectable news organization; I guess the bar’s not as high as I had figured. (Thanks to Alwin for the heads-up on the link.)