Buzzfeed's Carolyn Kylstra talks to Ed Yong, Gary Schwitzer, and others for a listicle of red flags for bad health reporting, such as muddling correlation and causation, or considering a medical test's accuracy but not its specificity: "If a story only reports on accuracy but does not say anything about specificity, then you can be sure that you’re not getting all the information you need to make a fully informed judgment about how valuable the test is in real life."
January 2, 2015
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