Author: news_poster
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:00 am
It doesn’t surprise me the BBC has been found to give too much attention to fringe viewpoints – I’ve been on the receiving endAn independent review of the BBC’s science coverage, led by the geneticist Professor Steve Jones, has concluded that journalists have in the past distorted scientific research by giving too much coverage to fringe scientific viewpoints. I read the report with great interest, as I have myself had cause to reflect on the media’s science impartiality in relation to several interviews I have done about drug harms and drug treatment policy.The two most remarkable instances came in radio interviews on current affairs programs. One was after the publication of our recent Lancet paper on the comparative harms of 20 commonly used drugs. The Today programme had asked me for…
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