Newsweek has a fascinating cover story about “food news blues” in this week’s editions. “A new appetite for answers has put science on a collision course with the media,” a subhead says. Here’s an excerpt:
“Not so long ago patients got all their medical knowledge from their doctors. But now a media explosion has transformed that intimate relationship into an orgy of Web sites, cable- and network-TV medical reports, and magazine and newspaper stories heralding one breakthrough after another. Americans are more likely to hear first reports of the latest cancer treatment from CNN’s Sanjay Gupta or ABC’s Tim Johnson (both doctors) than from their own oncologist…”
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