An old article on the acrylamide hysteria.
And similarly,

A set of simple risk charts could help people put in perspective their risk of dying from cancer, smoking, and other diseases and conditions....The charts appear in the June 5 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

I can't find the charts, though.
Update: here they are, I guess, but you have to pay. Bastards.
But I did find this, which tells us about the bad science in the movie "Erin Brockovich":

the movie encouraged exactly the wrong way to think about data, elevating individuals' medical histories to the level of proof and distorting the notion of risk.