Lazy, Irresponsible Reporting Misleads Public on Diabetes Research

Can you imagine a world where most MSM journalists had even an elementary grasp of the sciences and the ethics to do thirty seconds of research in order to get the story right?
Yesterday, JAMA published an article on type II diabetes - more specifically, on the use of therapeutic gastric banding to treat type II […]

The Guardian Takes a Page from Michael Moore

Browsing through The Guardian today, I came across these links to photojournalism commentaries extolling Cuban healthcare and slamming healthcare in the US. The galleries contrast pictures of smiling, healthy Cubans with fat, despondant Americans being treated in livestock barns, and argues that Cuban healthcare is better than American.
Consider this quote:
Michael Moore’s documentary, Sicko, holds up […]

International Herald Tribune Unknowingly Advertises the Gore Effect

The IHT ran a story Monday encouraging enthusiasts to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro before it’s destroyed by the global warming boogieman.
Says the author:
I had wanted to climb to the roof of Africa before climate change erased its ice fields and the romance of its iconic Snows of Kilimanjaro image.
He takes a momentary turn away from alarmism […]