The British Medical Journal has published an article debunking six popular medical myths via everyone’s favorite tool: science! It’s complete with links to sources, and tackles such ideas as sugar causing hyperactivity, and suicides increasing during the holidays.

Don’t miss last year’s article, too. That one tackles the 10% brain usage myth, the “reading in the dark ruins your eyesight” myth, as well as a couple others.

(via The New York Times via digg)