Bill Harvey: And now for the fake news

It’s been an odd year in many ways so a degree of levity is justified.

First, some fake news. The Commission Internationale de l’Eclairage announced that the somewhat archaic label applied to a patient showing an inability to distinguish red and green, Daltonism, would now be changed to ‘urban cyclist.’

New guidance on advice to coeliac patients has filtered through, due to too many not taking optometrist’s advice to avoid wheat seriously enough, resulting in a number of freak combine harvester accidents.

Meanwhile, stem cell research has continued apace with a recent paper highlighting the success of the team first able to demonstrate the growth of human vocal cords in the lab. The results speak for themselves (as announced on Radio 4 by Jack Dee).