About those "real people" that journalists like to include in their stories: Be careful, epidemiologist Bonnie Kerker warned science and health care writers at a New York event. “Anecdotal evidence is an oxymoron,” she said, urging her audience to use anecdotes only to illustrate the findings of a study, not the exception. Kerker and two other speakers, including NASW's Ivan Oransky, appeared Nov. 29 at a joint SWINY/AHCJ meeting at the City University of New York.
