In the past two days, many people's circle of friends has been screened by the "coffee cancer warning". The reason is that an article wrote in a surprisingly sensational tone that Starbucks contains acrylamide, a carcinogen, and Starbucks has long concealed this fact from the public for profit.

Cause of the incident:

A court in California ruled that coffee sellers in California should post a warning on the label of coffee to let consumers know that coffee contains acrylamide, a "possibly carcinogenic substance". But it still exists in all kinds of starchy baked goods, such as biscuits, potato chips, sausages and so on.

The American Cancer Society pointed out: "At present, there is no increased risk of any cancer type, which is obviously related to the intake of acrylamide." The verdict itself is full of controversy. If you want to label coffee, French fries, sausages and other foods will be forced to label countless times.

A doctor once provided a screening principle: if an article only tells you that something is toxic, but does not talk about the dose that causes toxicity, then the article is probably not credible. For example, some experts suggest that the daily intake of acrylamide by 60 kg adults should not exceed 60 mg. But the average dose of acrylamide for brewing coffee is 13ug/kg, which means you have to drink 40 cups of coffee every day to get a certain amount of acrylamide.

But articles full of headlines, fake news and hype, such as "coffee causes cancer", have once again become explosive articles. Some institutions have done statistics, and 20 14 has been copied and reprinted the most official account title of WeChat, which is the favorite prescription for tonifying kidney for healthy people. The field of health and wellness has therefore become the "hardest hit" of fraud, and false information with the theme of "cancer risk" and "eating each other" often appears in friends circle.

There's a dirty deal behind this. By taking things out of context, exaggerating compilation, making things out of nothing and other means, it confuses the public, pokes the public's emotional points, triggers the impulse to forward them, makes the article an explosion, and finally turns traffic into money and business.

For this official WeChat account, on the one hand, the public should raise their awareness of screening, don't become someone else's business, and be constantly fed by cheap emotions; On the other hand, the WeChat platform and managers should deal with it strictly, and don't let the unscrupulous scammers live too easily and destroy the healthy ecology of the official WeChat account. The official account of WeChat, who spread "coffee causes cancer", was blocked and really deserved it!