About those killer vegetables

How did a paper on some long-term changes in human genetics produce headlines saying that being a vegetarian can kill you? Andrew Porterfield examines coverage of the Cornell University study: "It’s too tempting for many outlets to talk about oversimplified solutions to things like obesity, heart disease, or cancer. It’s equally easy, as in the Cornell FADS allele story, to quickly mold hypothesis into proven outcome." More from Kaleigh Rogers.

April 7, 2016

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