Jon Brooks talks to one of the consultants on that John Oliver segment on science reporting, Health News Review publisher Gary Schwitzer, and asks about the journalism that gave rise to the jokes: "We treat anything published in a journal as if it’s from Moses coming down the mountaintop with a set of stone tablets. Journals were never meant to be sources for the 24-hour news cycle — they are meant to be a forum for discussion among scientists."
May 20, 2016