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Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Health News Edition

On the Media | Dec 25, 2015

Back in December of 2014, John Bohannon, a contributing correspondent for Science magazine, set out to dupe the media into reporting a poorly designed study with bogus results. And it worked...a little too well. Brooke talks with Bohannon about how bad health information ripples through the news. And, Gary Schwitzer of HealthNewsReview.org cautions against other problematic health reporting in a Breaking News Consumer's Handbook: Health News Edition. 

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