Categories: Los Angeles Times

5/31/2018

LA Times provides careful take on early brain/diabetes research–except for the headline

3/26/2018

Significant conflicts of interest not disclosed in LA Times story on modified Pap tests

2 12/28/2017

LA Times provides strong overview on study showing vitamin D and calcium supplements don’t prevent fractures

9/7/2017

LA Times portrays PSA screening analysis as far more clear-cut and definite than even the authors claim

8/1/2017

Do PET scans improve dementia diagnosis? LA Times story overlooks harms of screening

7/14/2017

“Good for you” or not? Mixed messages in LA Times coverage of coffee studies

6/1/2017

Immunotherapy’s ‘new era:’ LA Times story overlooks the risks and overstates trial results

12/5/2016

LA Times strikes the right balance by reporting evenly on both harms and benefits of ‘magic mushrooms’ for cancer patients

8/26/2016

Breast density and mammograms: LA Times story leans hard on news release

5/5/2016

LA Times story mischaracterizes studies on intestinal microbiome

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Monday at #ADA2021, an infectious disease epidemiologist, a journalist, and a researcher shared perspectives on communication of risk in the era of COVID-19: http://ow.ly/ROfR30rMeE7 @AstleyCM @garyschwitzer @berthahidalgo @ADA_DiabetesPro

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Shoutouts to @susan_bewley @drkevinknopf @MichaelBaum11 in this call for more than fawning coverage from press releases for these kinds of stories.

Also, linked history inside goes back 5 years just on Grail apparently trying to become Holy Grail. https://twitter.com/garyschwitzer/status/1408849696416841731

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Here we go again w/more news about “Blood test finds 50 types of cancer.” And here we see again what’s missing from most such news stories. https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2021/06/blood-test-finds-50-types-of-cancer-weve-been-down-this-path-before/

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