Headbanging is bad for you?

I was linked to this article this morning and if I'm honest, I'm at the point now where if the ignorance of the Daily Mail newspaper surprises me, then they have really excelled themselves.

Today they didn't go quite so far as to surprise me but they certainly hammered home another reminder of why I consider them the most vile and poisonous publication in the UK today.

They published an article today talking about how headbanging can be bad for your health and how it explains why 'metal concert-goers often seem dazed, confused and incoherent.’

I'm not one to just deny a story I don't agree with, but I will always deny the shameless comment which comes with every piece the Daily Mail publishes. The kind of comment which is disapproving and looks down on anyone who dare stray behind the acceptable standards of their readership's worldview.

Article in the Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1097025/The-headbangers-highway-casualty-Experts-warn-rock-dance-cause-brain-injury.html

An interesting thing to note is that this study being reported is carried out by the BMJ.

Article in the BMJ:
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/337/dec17_2/a2825?ijkey=0103c50972ae8ac09bb19a67e2b0adcc12e117bd

Just how seriously can you take a study that chose to examine the likes of Wayne's world or Beavis and Butthead and their headbanging styles to determine which would be most dangerous? Or their suggestions that metal fans should be given headbanging 'training' before gigs or that they substitute some of their listening of Metal for easy listening such as Celine Dion to help prevent head and neck injuries?

Not to mention the fact that the Daily Mail is regarded by many health and science writers as notorious for at best sensationalising and at worst totally distorting scientific studies and evidence. (Need we remember the Sars incident?)

They once again have chosen to totally ignore the point of their source in order to suit their news agenda.