It was only after I started to write a weekly column about the medical journals, and began to read scientific papers from beginning to end, that I realised just how bad much of the medical literature frequently was. I came to recognise various signs of a bad paper: the kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia. (46)There is a great deal of this kind of nonsense in the medical journals which, when taken up by broadcasters and the lay press, generates both health scares and short-lived dietary enthusiasm.
take up:
to accept sth that is offered or available 接受（建议或能得到的东西）
to take up a challenge
接受挑战
She took up his offer of a drink.
他请她喝一杯，她接受了。
By the time that Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage -where they had played no part since the death of Euripides. A native1 literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.
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