A busy start for a newly revived critic

Gary Schwitzer

Gary Schwitzer

Gary Schwitzer's resuscitated HealthNewsReview.org has hit the ground running with posts criticizing reporters (in two examples last week) for confusing correlation with causation regarding coffee drinking and melanoma occurrence, or Twitter use and heart disease: "It’s a story of the type we see increasingly – apparently based entirely on a news release with no independent vetting of claims, and misinterpretation of those claims that were made by the researchers."

January 28, 2015

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