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Just as urban legends and rumors eventually become attached to the most famous exemplars of the subjects they discuss (e.g., any fast food-related legend, no matter where it originates, will inevitably be told about McDonald's), so do many of the spurious medical articles circulated on the Internet eventually become attributed to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins university, medical school, and hospitals. A putative Cancer Update from Johns Hopkins Hospital began as an e-mailed preface to another piece about the supposed dangers of using microwave ovens to heat food stored in plastic containers: Both of those articles were said to have originated with Johns Hopkins, but neither was issued by (or had any connection to) the Johns Hopkins university or hospital, and Johns Hopkins has disclaimed the contents of both: The web site of Johns Hopkins' Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center also noted of the Cancer Update e-mail that: Interested readers are directed to a point-by-point debunking of the Cancer Update e-mail published by the Kimmel Cancer Center.
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