Crappy health reporting

May 28, 2008

PLoS Medicine: “When it comes to the quality of health reporting, why is the bar set so low? One problem is that today’s health reporters may have been covering crime last week and politics the week before. They have rarely been trained to understand the complexities of health research.”

(via Schwitzer)



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