...in thinking this online newspaper article is actually a mumsnet thread from last week?

[CalleighDoodle]

Surely journalists dont read threads on mumsnet, use other people's research and turn them into articles?

www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkadvice/11463888/Does-gum-stay-in-your-stomach-for-7-years-10-food-myths-busted.html

What thread did you have in mind?

I can't read the thread but yes I know that journalists read threads is MN quite often and use them as a basis for articles.

Oh no, surely not............

Mumsnet is a mine of rich pickings.

i cant remember the name of it but was basically that above.

Journos do this all the time.

They also start threads to get writing fodder.
I got pm'ed by a journo following a thread. Hq told me off for replying to her.

Me too

It did surprise me bikerunski, didn't think anyone noticed my posts .
I think i had been ranting to make a change
I see a lot of threads that read as though someone was doing research.

I read a daily mash one earlier.. It did make me chuckle www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/indifference-to-babies-outlawed-2015031096099

I got a pm about some telly program about phobias. Sometimes I think half the threads are farming ones.