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Category: brain scans
7May 2012
In a thoughtful post Friday, Gary Stix at Scientific American reported on a study of six British newspapers by researchers at University College of London. The study found that “research was being applied out of context to create dramatic headlines, push thinly disguised ideological arguments, or support particular policy agendas.”
We might be hard put to find any area of science coverage that hasn't been subject to those kinds of distortions. Coverage of Lipitor and its ilk was certainly as likely to contain dramatic...
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In a post earlier today, I criticized The New York Times for failing to respond to a letter signed by 45 neuroscientists that challenged the accuracy of a Times op-ed piece. The op-ed was written by a branding consultant...
UPDATE: The public editor of The New York Times has responded to this post....
UPDATE: The public editor of The New York Times has responded to this post. Here's the link.
When something in the paper is wrong, The New York Times is supposed to correct it. Sometimes it is so eager to do so that its corrections border on the trivial. When an article in the Nov. 13 issue of the Times Magazine on rubber duckies referred to the Seiberling Rubber Company, the paper was careful to note, in last Sunday's magazine, that it should have been...
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