Journalists & bloggers jumped all over this study last week: "Association of skirt size & postmenopausal breast cancer risk in older women." If all you read were news headlines, you were probably misled. Read our analysis.
If you've followed our website or these mailings, you know that proton beam radiation therapy for cancer is a promising, very expensive, quickly-proliferating, and hotly debated emerging technology. Yet TIME magazine co-hosted a Twitter chat with the Mayo Clinic, which is building two different proton beam facilities. Is this the new journalism ethics? Should a news organization partner with providers to promote their pet technologies in forums like Twitter chats?
