How doctors can get behind the headlines
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Australia and America are doing more than "developing" their own
systems; they are fully developed and robust.
The Media Doctor Australia web project
(http://www.mediadoctor.org.au/) now has a database of almost 1,000
stories. A Media Doctor Canada effort (http://www.mediadoctor.ca/) has
reviewed about 100 stories.
And our U.S. effort - http://www.HealthNewsReview.org - has reviewed more
than 300 stories in just 11 months.
Last week I presented our data to date at the Association of Health
Care Journalists conference in Los Angeles. Journalists, rather than
being defensive, were quite receptive to the constructive criticism and
feedback that our system offers.
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I am the Publisher of http://www.HealthNewsReview.org.
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Carcinogenesis and The Daily Mail
Ben Goldacre points out that "The Daily Mail has an ongoing project
to divide all the inanimate objects in the world Why stop there? I am sure
some inanimate objects may both cause and cure cancer.
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