Press Gazette: Doctor’s warning: ‘Poor quality of British journalism is a serious public health issue’
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 09:29
"In an interview for this month’s print edition of Press Gazette, [Ben] Goldacre has condemned journalists for fueling what he calls the “MMR hoax” by giving widespread coverage to Doctor Andrew Wakefield’s claims that MMR jabs caused autism. He points out that vaccination rates have dropped from 92 per cent to 73 per cent prompting serious disease outbreaks since Wakefield’s research was first reported in 1998."
Guardian: Editorial: Libel battles can make and break reputations, but only rarely do they bear on questions of life and death
Saturday, 13 September 2008, 07:50
"Libel battles can make and break reputations, but only rarely do they bear on questions of life and death. The legal case against the Guardian which Matthias Rath abandoned this week is an exception. The vitamin campaigner - who has long proffered his pills as a panacea in defiance of all evidence - objected to remarks our columnist Ben Goldacre made about his South African activities."
Guardian: Comment is Free: The media’s addiction to controversy can seriously damage your health
Wednesday, 13 August 2008, 07:17
Peter Wilby: "A coincidence of events does not prove a causal connection. Nevertheless, an excellent book by Tammy Boyce of Cardiff University - Health, Risk and News - shows British press stories about MMR and its dangers climbed steeply from 1998 and peaked in 2002."
Saturday, 28 June 2008, 19:25
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NHS Behind the Headlines calls BS on the Star and Express: "This study cannot be taken as evidence that eating chocolate, and specifically Mars bars, will reduce your risk of bowel cancer, or any other type of cancer, or that it is ‘good for you’."
Saturday, 14 June 2008, 12:29
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"The Toronto Star’s new Map of the Week project has published a set of school vaccination maps which illuminates an ongoing measles outbreak in the Toronto metro area — the worst in more than a decade."
