This is still one of my personal faves of blogs that I've written - the story of a health myth based on unpublished research that is still being repeated today https://medium.com/athena-talks/bras-arent-bad-for-your-boobs-3dba3143e591 …
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The story is a wonderful example of how health myths come about Picture this - it's 2013. A distinguished French sports scientist is talking live on radio about his researchpic.twitter.com/J0JAmwvjut
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As part of the interview, he mentions an interesting study that he's conducting - measuring the breasts of bra-wearing women and women who don't wear bras to see if there's a difference
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For some reason (my hypothesis - people love boobs) this is more interesting than his other major research interests which include rehab for elderly people and psychometric effects of biathlonspic.twitter.com/4WtrJ91WWO
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The basic idea is that this researcher has found that women who use bras have "saggier" breasts than women who don't, over time (16 years) Momentous stuff
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France Info puts out a press release, and the story goes instantly viral Covered across the world, translated into multiple languages, put out in almost every form imaginablepic.twitter.com/3rhgMoNdz3
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And this story is still being repeated word-for-word half a decade later Here's a piece from January this year that is basically indistinguishable from the media noise in 2013 https://culturacolectiva.com/technology/benefits-of-not-wearing-bra …
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A few years back I spent a while trying to track down what the hell was going on here. Found a radio interview he gave, and I think there was a tv interview with one of the women in the study (she did orienteering iirc). That was it.
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Nah not again lol, was just reminded of this story and thought I'd share it because it's one of the most ridiculous I've come across
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