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Weekly digest - August 20, 2012
devoted to news about the myriad messages about health care interventions that flood
Americans daily
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Blog
barks of
the week
Cocoa, eggs, walnuts, iced tea - many food items were in the news last week with
claims about good and bad things that might occur from consumption. But some stuff
on the menu gave the Watchdog heartburn.
* Cocoa "puff" stories on claims about flavanols for mild memory problems [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC0Z0doko0Qeud7a_zZ08IQZY0gVp0F_omfu80hOR0hmFTp6TERFsmI035ynKnQ_VBjH9uYLoyMxSaj_tbb9Kbhaowywz_RWuBLAkIBFtMfFDvRdEPBxvzm2ZsBlH4M3-OKwR4oyud3mSh47ggvDs7qT06caoesI3W4=]
* Egg yolks as bad for you as smoking? [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC32UaFXFLzNVtBnxkPgWyjhb0eWzRmqBg2s5gKP5ZpQl8s5lTY1o5dy5qS5k6UGoHRvpwwTocWj56Z8UwHoNPVaT90UPQMTnz8bQQnfi3lbfvl_Zx5jt81d1EDuQhzPcSeottgUx-a79b2M-iNU4nq4DTZaXvdFDOcqmcmel2HpHpM21OybU43wHaboU4xgBxXxdZeW7mCRo6c-JC9zSyqm5kaWLTZA_hzJR95q9SYkpA==]
Cracking through the shell of those claims. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC32UaFXFLzNVtBnxkPgWyjhb0eWzRmqBg2s5gKP5ZpQl8s5lTY1o5dy5qS5k6UGoHRvpwwTocWj56Z8UwHoNPVaT90UPQMTnz8bQQnfi3lbfvl_Zx5jt81d1EDuQhzPcSeottgUx-a79b2M-iNU4nq4DTZaXvdFDOcqmcmel2HpHpM21OybU43wHaboU4xgBxXxdZeW7mCRo6c-JC9zSyqm5kaWLTZA_hzJR95q9SYkpA==]
* Eating walnuts to improve sperm quality? This one may not be all it was cracked
up to be, either. [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC1X2d5UQ4w04hoRcV6GBhByNxuqD_fuyZKtaGzdXPnHUuQlMftjxv9MSsHz11KkhAiZB08MhVlsNVjbRaPOcSZdv4hRufCeh1I4t3gwpEOiZgDoHfziwRJk13A-cXN-BxkG0jhMcj-phTQRJY93qx95X8ReTvUbrwf2BFAslKqxInvS5jFz8zkL3SscbeUjjdA=]
* and iced tea, kidney stones, and the study that never actually existed! [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC0eRk2QUr-INp1z4l5SKeXBTUIgm_MYahHoNvNEwz_iudiUOnSJTyZxaAzCSXsjs-GZLYO_7YaRfnauPmTahH5El3-nEJOnldZRJIYwal3cmEOPNmf45JuQOgkABPMgOTUlWutvS9vQpphK2zJErlTj5XHRZWJIP0q3KyXM7r1jg9-cm4l7QsClXJAaOc2pWjBw4k0lmBUmPABmHu3IqC3f]
Other blog posts:
* What makes you stupid? [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC0NonePEaYb4_2KGREmBn8sDx4x212pICwbA3aD8fT_J3N2YgC1uEGrsPSDgDofmWlB2BiZul7yCX1OC8hv7-EvWl_ZLEYOzyTbW-qCKmagNDM76yJ65p7M7DFJEOXqdQCv5NNLoO8bZknd7doB9KmpQrguGagH4fM=]
Maybe it's stories like "How your pot belly makes you stupid." [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC0NonePEaYb4_2KGREmBn8sDx4x212pICwbA3aD8fT_J3N2YgC1uEGrsPSDgDofmWlB2BiZul7yCX1OC8hv7-EvWl_ZLEYOzyTbW-qCKmagNDM76yJ65p7M7DFJEOXqdQCv5NNLoO8bZknd7doB9KmpQrguGagH4fM=]
* And Dr. George Lundberg proclaims, " All Hail the US Preventive Services Task
Force [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC3iFREgTl8SRaF6pDH284PCb-QW_idES_T70gYMLudUwdz6raPlBxDUyFFXrR3KmbAN5XuTiYOkNHNmX66Z3BLowlYhA4pEApe0aVo4kDZ6yZm5uR6lcxODSic03dac-3KVMPEmow5e5AK-H8YXeMBTszDOB2YeZUjCW3yojFtb9vTFS3akVySwGVKb2RlI88fhcVc1mkb1tfsEHbp-phrK]."
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How well did these stories address our 10 criteria?
In stories about whether daily aspirin use can help prevent cancer, Reuters Health
[http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC0YrgdmJhUFek9Z9C6g-MM1DwcrPu0PLkOkwVdGAs-VpnVql1irBgMMHKkGCQmQKx7bQlWc9jKt69FIOQGmCrq8rg0LGjF5388RvhBnWvY8zbB56lvORUIdf4f529R5qknEah90wLEMdE1EKF0f3mdfvYfyAECrHrPBEkRwS-FtkvGuLaTd3eST]
placed clear caveats about limitations of the research starting in the second sentence
of the story and continuing throughout - even discussing "detection bias." Because
of that, their story was better than the competing effort by WebMD [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC0Uz57mrK9NzJZrpBZwvJjI2KixhdduKBRs5WP3mln32Inb7frPRuSS-ofLSba9O7th10PNQEcavYe5Cy9H5FBxw9AhIqLWg8Xu0F1kwWfYNZq5JAC65F_97yGSzF9hZ_3DQs5SgEQ9jxFnNfcYBWM-oCl9lrHSsZSAe2AJohdmOpvWY5SSq-uenGJ-7aVGx-M=]
- which swung back and forth in a confusing way over whether this was a statistical
association or a cause-and-effect finding.
We believe that journalists can help educate news consumers about the quality of
evidence and that not all studies are equal.
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Why does Nat'l Library of Medicine still index a journal with conflict of interest
issues? [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC3kefSX6VkBs-VcPiQ0wMnRI4X3S6XyY3-4O8xz59t3_llNVfRO2GM27nChzJnoaSXz2atKKlfK8fn179enVoyUL_klW6MepHZ0BerDlmiHLOXWoown8mXRzFAKSSBFvhbpWTcxDF8K87DnWRqMO4RCoSs73tfizTvHuEOr9WbfM8RINgs1AM_1zQ7l1VAAm4BZH39l72RSzVyQAytA4Z0plm94ciPTLmkjRscFfMDanGxJ6Zw18aVb_33pBBLyqmgMOIe55pusRzTs5L8Ehx7L]
Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC3kefSX6VkBs-VcPiQ0wMnRI4X3S6XyY3-4O8xz59t3_llNVfRO2GM27nChzJnoaSXz2atKKlfK8fn179enVoyUL_klW6MepHZ0BerDlmiHLOXWoown8mXRzFAKSSBFvhbpWTcxDF8K87DnWRqMO4RCoSs73tfizTvHuEOr9WbfM8RINgs1AM_1zQ7l1VAAm4BZH39l72RSzVyQAytA4Z0plm94ciPTLmkjRscFfMDanGxJ6Zw18aVb_33pBBLyqmgMOIe55pusRzTs5L8Ehx7L]
Guest blog post [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=0012rsze2OYYC3kefSX6VkBs-VcPiQ0wMnRI4X3S6XyY3-4O8xz59t3_llNVfRO2GM27nChzJnoaSXz2atKKlfK8fn179enVoyUL_klW6MepHZ0BerDlmiHLOXWoown8mXRzFAKSSBFvhbpWTcxDF8K87DnWRqMO4RCoSs73tfizTvHuEOr9WbfM8RINgs1AM_1zQ7l1VAAm4BZH39l72RSzVyQAytA4Z0plm94ciPTLmkjRscFfMDanGxJ6Zw18aVb_33pBBLyqmgMOIe55pusRzTs5L8Ehx7L]
by Kevin Lomangino, one of our freelance journalist-story reviewers.
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