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Doctor debunks 500 news stories in crusade against junk science

Another review of Dr. Ben Goldacre’s new book “Bad Science,” this time in the Daily Telegraph, notes that since he started writing for the Guardian in 2003, he has debunked more than 500 news stories...

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A pox on pox parties

Once upon a time, pox parties – where children were introduced to other children infected with chickenpox – were a logical way of trying to stimulate immunity to the virus in the absence of a vaccine....

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Scientists need to speak out more quickly on bad science says Financial Times

In honor of the 200-year anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, and the 150-year anniversary of the publication of the Origin of the Species, the Financial Times took a swipe at a) burgeoning...

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One percent of health reporters say health coverage in U.S. is excellent

The Association of Health Care Journalists and the Kaiser Family Foundation conducted a survey and found that only 1 percent of reporters covering health thought that coverage of health in the media...

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Let’s put the first U.S. death from swine flu into perspective

It was inevitable that the first death from porcine influenza would receive a banner headline in massive 36 point, all caps type on Matt Drudge: “FIRST DEAD: MEXICAN WHO CAME TO USA FOR TREATMENT.” The...

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Swine-hounds: Porking the panic

With the number of news stories about swine flu pushing 50,000 in the past week, some journalists are beginning to wonder whether the press is suffering from swine fever. As the Los Angeles Times...

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Scare-tistics and swine-fluence

Throughout the weekend, and now into Monday, CNN seems to have been turned into the influenza network, as “breaking” headlines highlighted soaring, leaping, and rising numbers of people with swine flu....

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Britannica versus Wikipedia

In our article The Internet – a sober corrective to unruly journalists, Andrew Lih, author of the “Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World’s Greatest Encyclopedia,” noted how a...

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Sleep off fat and other tall tales from TV health reporting

NPR’s On the Media recently had a very interesting discussion about the dismal state of television’s health and science reporting.  Here’s a look at some of the examples. NBC Today show clip on losing...

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Media Bites Manliness Marketing

By Cindy Merrick While you were busy wringing your hands over our nation’s debt crisis this summer, Combos (the Mars, Inc. brand responsible for figuring out how to shape pretzels around a glob of...

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