just plain not smart

as a future pediatrician with interest in cancer, a bbc headline caught my eye: Colds 'may trigger child cancers.' such integrative, physiologic hypotheses are always appealing to yours truly, but with such a preposterous title, i had to investigate further. here is the original paper by houben et al. i really don't know what the study shows except that the incidence of some childhood gliomas is weakly clustered in the eastern part of the south of netherlands, but it's definitely not smart here.