Was it actually strange to find egyptian upperclass to have heart problems, giving that been upperclass they would have had a life of luxury where everythign would be done by slaves. Furthermore, its not like they had a great understanding of general health so I doubt they're the type for daily exercise routines and balanced diets.

The problem is not the journalism, the problem has always been the wonderfully intelligent public Your average joe is not going to be bothered to actually be interetsed and look up on the issues raised by an journalists' article. They're just gonna take the conclusions (no matter how generalised) as facts and then the rest is left to mob mentality. So the question would be, how to solve ignorance in the public??

A great man once said "You don't truly understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother" maybe people would understand and "like" science more if it's not percieved as becoming more abstract and difficult by the second by the average academic(anyone doing the educating). No matter what we do, it'll take time to raise a new generation of people who are interested in science and change the current generation to be more open to scientific theory and questions