So, here's the thing. I was just writing the post below when I discovered that the gist of it had, in fact, been debunked.
It turns out what happened to the Daily Express story in question can actually be done by anyone to any content on their or the Daily Telegraph's websites. Slightly disappointing, given that I'd invested a good - oh, I don't know - 3 minutes of my life on coming up with something to say about it, but fun nonetheless.
See Dr Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog post on the matter a-here.
And now the story of a man who truly deserves a performance-related bonus and a fat expense account.
Today the Guardian's brilliant Media Monkey reported on the carefully-chosen words of a certain Daily Express web editor who, in constructing the URL for a fairly preposterous story about how seven or more cups of your coffee a day could be bad for your health (hold the phone...a mere seven?), summed up the feelings of not only himself but probably a few million others out there.
Mr Monkey summed it up thusly - but for the impatient here's the Daily Express story right off the bat.
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