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jbert: Read some good sources:http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/you-are-80-less-likely-to-...http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=the+tiger+that+is...Perhaps take some public health scares and look up the papers behind them (if they exist). Try and work out if the scares are justified or not, based on the evidence.Perhaps do some meta-analyses of studies to see if you can determine evidence of publication bias: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_biasFind something that interests you and Do Science To It.